Missile strikes were carried out in different parts of the Middle East on Saturday. The recent attacks have raised concerns that a wider war is developing in the Middle East.
Around Missile strikes were carried out in the Middle East on Saturday, which are connected to the war between Israel and the terrorist organization Hamas in Gaza. They were apt to raise concerns that a wider war is developing in the Middle East, in which Iran and the forces it supports in various countries are fighting Israel and the United States.
On Saturday, Israel struck both Damascus, Syria, where Iran says five members of its Revolutionary Guard were killed, and southern Lebanon, where two people were reportedly killed. According to Lebanese security sources, one of the dead was a member of the Iranian-backed Lebanese Shiite organization Hezbollah.
Iran vowed to avenge Israel's attacks on Saturday.
On Saturday, Iranian-backed armed groups operating in Iraq fired ballistic missiles and rockets at al-Assad's military base used by the United States, which is located in the western part of Iraq. According to the United States, one Iraqi soldier was wounded in the attack, as well as some Americans. The United States said its soldiers are being examined for brain injuries.
According to the newspaper The New York Times, similar attacks have been carried out against US forces in Iraq and Syria as many as 140 times in recent months.
On Saturday, the United States again bombed the Iran-backed Houthi rebels in Yemen, who have carried out aerial and missile strikes against merchant and warships in the Red Sea.
Iran also supports Hamas's ongoing armed resistance against Israel with rocket attacks.
Israel strikes Syria's Damascus on Saturday.
Smoke rose from the southern Lebanese village of Odaisseh on Saturday.
A week during, Iran has also fired missiles at Iraq, Syria and Pakistan, which responded with strikes on Iranian territory. Turkey, on the other hand, has fired at Kurdish forces in Iraq and Syria.
Foreign Minister of Saudi Arabia, Prince Faisal bin Farhan said in an interview with the news channel CNN to be broadcast on Sunday that he was afraid of the expansion of the war.
“Of course we are worried,” Faisal said, according to the Reuters news agency.
US ally Saudi Arabia traditionally competes against Iran for the position of the most powerful Muslim country in the Middle East. Saudi Arabia supports Yemen's Sunni government in its civil war against the Shia Houthi rebels. In recent years, Saudi Arabia has become closer with Israel.
“We are living in a very difficult and dangerous time in this region, and that is why we are announcing a relaxation,” Faisal told CNN.
Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian in turn said in an interview with CNN on Wednesday that “if the genocide in Gaza ends, it will lead to the end of other crises and attacks in the region”.
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