Hello and welcome to our continuing live coverage of the US-Israeli war on Iran.

Canadian prime minister Mark Carney said on Thursday that he couldn’t rule out his country’s military participation in the escalating war in the Middle East.

“One can never categorically rule out participation,” he said alongside his Australian counterpart Anthony Albanese in Canberra. “We will stand by our allies,” added Carney, who had said the US-Israeli strikes on Iran were “inconsistent with international law”.

Iran launched a fresh round of missiles at Israel early on Thursday, according to the Israeli military and Tehran’s state media, as the war entered its sixth day. The launches triggered alerts in several areas including Tel Aviv. There were no immediate reports of casualties.

Here are the other main developments:

• An airstrike hit the Hezbollah stronghold of south Beirut early on Thursday, after Israel had issued a warning to residents. Elsewhere, three people were killed in a pair of Israeli strikes on vehicles along Beirut’s airport highway, Lebanon’s health ministry said. Israel has urged people to leave the section of Lebanon south of the Litani river – an area of hundreds of square kilometres – as the army was “compelled to take military action”.

• A US submarine torpedoed and sank an Iranian warship off the coast of Sri Lanka as the effects of the war in the Middle East spread to yet another country. The IRIS Dena frigate had been on a friendly visit to India when it was hit. Eighty-seven bodies had been collected, a Sri Lankan navy official said.

• Benjamin Netanyahu’s office said Israel and the US had made “historic gains” in their war against Iran. A spokesperson for the prime minister also claimed the attack was needed as Iran was using “new underground bunkers” to rebuild its atomic bomb program.

• Donald Trump hailed the US performance in the war, saying Iran’s leaders were rapidly being killed, and vowed to push on. “We’re doing well on the war front, to put it mildly. Somebody said on a scale of 10, where would you rate it? I said about a 15.”

• A ballistic missile launched from Iran and heading towards Turkish airspace via Iraq and Syria was destroyed by Nato air defense systems, Turkish officials said.

• US defence secretary Pete Hegseth offered few details and was evasive when asked about the deadly strike on a girls’ school in Iran, saying only that the US was “investigating” the incident. Iranian officials say the attack on Saturday killed at least 165 students

• Intense waves of airstrikes have hit dozens of military positions, frontier posts and police stations along northern parts of Iran’s border with Iraq in what appears to be preparation by US and Israel for a new front in their war. A US official said the US was ready to provide air support if Kurdish peshmerga fighters crossed the border from northern Iraq.

• A tanker at anchor off Kuwait reported seeing a large explosion on its port side and was taking on water, the United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations said. The master observed a small craft leaving the area after the explosion, which occurred 30 nautical miles (56 km) south-east of Kuwait’s Mubarak Al Kabeer port in the Gulf, it said.

• Spain doubled down on its opposition to Washington’s use of its bases against Iran after Trump’s threats of trade reprisals. The White House said Madrid had now agreed to cooperate, but Spanish foreign minister Jose Manuel Albares said its stance on “bases, on the war in the Middle East, on the bombardment of Iran, has not changed at all”.

• Governments around the world are rushing to organise the return of their citizens from the Middle East and air traffic seems to be picking up slightly as travel across the region remains heavily disrupted by the crisis.

• The Omani navy rescued 24 crew members of a container ship struck by missiles in the strait of Hormuz.

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