Retaliatory strikes between Iran and Israel on oil and gas facilities have sent fuel prices soaring and world leaders in a rush for a solution.

The latest assaults follow days of Iranian strikes on regional energy infrastructure that have roiled global markets.

Follow our live coverage of the conflict in the Middle East and related developments in Australia.

In the centre of the tiny Lebanese village of Nabi Chit is a crater from an Israeli missile, following a skirmish, a sign of an escalating war.

Japan’s Trump-friendly prime minister was bracing for a difficult meeting with the president when it took an unexpected diversion back to Japan’s role in World War II.

A decisive victory over Iran would be the achievement of a lifetime for the Israeli prime minister. His hardline stance on the conflict has bolstered his position inside Israel where opposition parties are splintered.

The American actor and fellow collector John Wilkerson wanted to “spread the word” about the paintings they love. Increasingly, they feel they’ve accomplished their mission.

Indonesian authorities have arrested six people, four of them from the military’s intelligence unit, in connection to the incident that has sent a chill through Indonesian human rights activists.

Dramatic footage has emerged of the moment a journalist, working for Russian state broadcaster RT, was wounded in an Israeli strike in southern Lebanon.

Asked by a Japanese reporter why he did not inform allies about the war in advance, Trump said he did not want to give away his plans.

Indonesian activist Andrie Yunus was seriously injured in a chemical attack in Central Jakarta.

A missile has landed metres from a journalist reporting live for a Russian network on the war in Lebanon.

Gas and oil fields have been struck in Qatar and Iran as the cost of oil soars.

In a meeting with Japan’s prime minister, Donald Trump said he didn’t warn allies about his attack on Iran because he wanted it to be a surprise, like the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbour.

As everyone was absorbing the RBA’s decision to raise interest rates on Tuesday evening, one economist received something of a rock-star reception in Sydney.

Whatever else America is meant to be capable of, we expect it to be able to smash things. And yet, barely a fortnight into Trump’s war on Iran, he’s already reduced to asking for help … from China.

Oil prices have surged as both sides ratchet up attacks on energy facilities. Follow our live coverage of the conflict in the Middle East and related developments in Australia.

The US president has distanced himself from an Israeli attack on Iran’s South Pars offshore gas field as tit-for-tat strikes on energy infrastructure escalate the Middle East conflict and propel oil prices even higher.

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