The US embassy in Baghdad, Iraq, has been hit by a missile — video shows fire and smoke rising in the aftermath. President Donald Trump says “every military target” on Iran’s key oil island has been “totally obliterated”, but there was no damage to oil infrastructure. Kharg Island is a tiny but strategic terminal in the northern Gulf, 22 miles off the coast of Iran. In response, Tehran warns oil and energy infrastructure belonging to firms that co-operate with the US will be “turned into a pile of ashes” if Iran’s energy facilities are attacked. At least 12 medical staff have been killed in an Israeli strike in Lebanon, and Israel issues an evacuation warning for part of western Iran. More US Marines and warships are expected to be deployed to the Middle East.
