Here are the latest developments in the Middle East war

A ​total of 60% of respondents said they disapproved of US military ​strikes on Iran, while 35% approved in the survey of 1,021 people

The remarks underscored the shifting and at times contradictory statements from Washington about how the war, now in its fifth week, might end.

Iranian media yesterday reported that a wave of US-Israeli strikes hit military bases, a cancer drug plant and a religious site -- a day after President Donald Trump threatened to destroy the country’s oil wells and power grid.

Qeshm is the largest Iranian island in the Gulf, stretching for around one hundred kilometres across the Strait of Hormuz

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Israeli forces clash with Iran-backed Hezbollah

Both main oil contracts fell Tuesday, though West Texas Intermediate and Brent were still sitting well above $100 a barrel.

Trump said the United States was speaking to a "more reasonable regime" in Tehran, which has denied any talks and accused him of lying about negotiations as cover while readying a ground invasion.

Over the weekend, 2,500 Marines arrived in the Middle East

Domestic production of urea has been impacted, making the current situation “very vulnerable”, an Indian government official said yesterday as the Israel-Iran war entered its 31st day, even as the government steps up efforts to secure supplies ahead of key agricultural months.

US President Donald Trump brushed aside concerns about surging fuel prices yesterday and threatened to destroy Iran’s oil wells, power plants and main export terminal if Tehran does not quickly accept a peace deal.

A statement carried by the Guards' Sepah News website said Tangsiri "succumbed to severe injuries" from the attack

"I think we'll make a deal with them, I'm pretty sure, but it's possible we won't," Trump told reporters on Sunday evening as he traveled aboard Air Force One to Washington.

Pakistan said on Sunday it was preparing to host "meaningful talks" to end the conflict over Iran in coming days

Iran launched strikes on Kuwait and Saudi Arabia, meanwhile after Iranian electrical facilities came under attack, cutting power to parts of Tehran and surrounding areas

IAEA said that Iran's heavy water production plant in Khondab was no longer operational after an Israeli military strike

US President Donald Trump said he wanted to “take the oil” in Iran, possibly seizing the export hub of Kharg Island, the Financial Times reported

US President Donald Trump said in an interview with the Financial Times on Sunday that he could take Iran's Kharg Island "very easily."

Gulf Arab states are telling the US that any deal with Tehran should do more than end the war, and must permanently curb Iran’s missile and drone capabilities and ensure global energy supplies are never again “weaponised”, four Gulf sources said.