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Israeli air strikes in Iran, damaged buildings amid the escalating conflict between Israel and Iran.

Israel-Iran conflict LIVE updates: US bombs Iran, joins Israel’s war, attacks three nuclear sites; Donald Trump says full payload dropped on Fordow from B-2 bombers

The US joined Israel’s war on Iran, dropping bombs on nuclear sites in Iran. Follow along for all the latest developments. 

  • Angus Delaney and Ellen Connolly

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President Donald Trump arrives at Joint Base Andrews.

Trump says US has bombed three nuclear sites in Iran in ‘very successful attack’

US President Donald Trump posted on social media platform Truth Social to say that nuclear sites at Fordow, Natanz and Esfahan had been struck.

  • Natassia Chrysanthos
A phone displays a photo of Parnia Abbasi, a poet who was one week away from her 24th birthday when she was killed in an Israeli strike, June 17, 2025. Israel has said it does not target Iranian civilians, but hundreds have died in the violence.

Life was good for Parnia’s family. Then an airstrike hit their Tehran apartment

Israel has said it does not target Iranian civilians, but hundreds have died in the violence.

  • Farnaz Fassihi, Leily Nikounazar and Parin Behrooz
US President Donald Trump speaks with reporters upon arriving in New Jersey on Friday.

US deploys B-2 bombers as Trump weighs Iran strike

The B-2 deployment, picked up by flight tracking services on Saturday, indicates that the US administration is getting the Air Force bombers in position if needed for a strike on Iran.

  • Skylar Woodhouse, Alisa Odenheimer, Samy Adghirni and Ellen Milligan
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Israel-Iran conflict as it happened: Israel says ‘new wave’ of attacks has begun; Donald Trump scorns EU peace efforts, as death toll nears 700

Israel and Iran have traded missile strikes as attempts to end the fighting via diplomacy have so far made little progress.

  • Ben Cubby
Iranian Revolutionary Guard cadets march during an annual military parade, just outside Tehran, Iran.

How the militaries of Israel and Iran compare

Though roughly equal in the number of troops, the two militaries bring strikingly different tactics and firepower.

  • Christopher Bodeen
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Palestinians collect sacks of flour from an aid distribution point in Beit Lahia, northern Gaza.

Israeli attacks kill 44 Palestinians in Gaza as UN warns of water shortage

UNICEF says a shortage of fuel to operate wells and desalination plants in Gaza means the enclave “is facing what would amount to a man-made drought”.

  • Nidal al-Mughrabi and Olivia Le Poidevin
US President Donald Trump and Chinese leader Xi Jinping.

A US attack on Iran would show the limits of China’s power

China, which depends on Iran for oil and to counter American influence, has a lot to lose from a wider war. But there’s not much it can do about it.

  • David Pierson, Keith Bradsher and Berry Wang
Israeli security forces inspect a destroyed building that were hit by a missile fired from Iran, in Holon, near Tel Aviv, Israel.

Israel-Iran conflict as it happened: Australia deploys ADF to Middle East to evacuate citizens after embassy in Tehran closes; Trump to decide on US involvement ‘within two weeks’

The world is waiting to find out if US President Donald Trump will authorise American strikes on Iran’s nuclear sites. Look back at the day’s events.

  • Cassandra Morgan, Lachlan Abbott, Anthony Segaert and Lynette Eyb
Smoke rises above the Soroka Medical Centre.

Australia urges diplomacy as deadly Israel-Iran strikes ramp up and Trump weighs US options

Australia has closed its embassy in Tehran, while the US president says he’ll decide whether to intervene in the war within two weeks.

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