Iran and Israel yesterday kept up attacking each other for the eleventh day as US President Donald Trump raised the question of regime change in Iran following US strikes against nuclear sites a day earlier.

Turkey will not allow extremists to drag Syria back into chaos and instability, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said yesterday after a suicide attack killed 22 at a Damascus church.

In a bid to defuse the conflict over Iran’s nuclear program, foreign ministers from Europe’s top three powers hurried to meet their Iranian counterpart on Friday in Geneva.

The US strikes on nuclear sites in Iran are an extraordinary turn for a military that was supposed to be moving on from two decades of forever wars in the Middle East, and they put the United States back on war footing.

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Syria's health ministry said the toll from Sunday's attack on the Mar Elias Church in the Dweila neighborhood had risen to 25

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"This is an absolutely unprovoked aggression against Iran," Putin told Araghchi

"The world clearly saw that the Atomic Energy Agency has not fulfilled any of its obligations and has become a political tool," Qalibaf added.

"The Zionist enemy... is being punished right now," Khamenei wrote on social media.

Iran is the world's ninth-biggest oil-producing country, with output of about 3.3 million barrels per day.

"The Department of State advises US citizens worldwide to exercise increased caution."

International concern focused on fears that the unprecedented US attacks would deepen conflict in the volatile region after Israel launched a bombing campaign against Iran earlier this month.

"The bombing of Iranian nuclear facilities by the United States marks a perilous turn," UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres told the Security Council on Sunday.

At least 20 people were killed and dozens injured when a suicide bomber blew himself up at the Mar Elias Church in the Dweila neighbourhood of Syria's capital Damascus yesterday, health authorities and security sources said.

President Donald Trump said US air strikes yesterday had “completely and totally obliterated” Iran’s main nuclear enrichment facilities, and warned of more attacks to come if Tehran does not seek peace.

New Delhi’s counter-terrorism agency said yesterday it has arrested two men in India-administered Kashmir for allegedly harbouring Pakistani gunmen behind a deadly attack on civilians that sparked a days-long conflict between the two countries.