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The conflict in the Middle East is now in its fourth day, after the US and Israel attacked Iran on Saturday, and Tehran retaliated by launching strikes on its neighbours.

Hundreds of people have now died, including more than 160 Iranian school children, according to state media, as well as multiple US service members.

This is the latest, compiled by CNN:

At least 787 people have been killed by US and Israeli bombing across Iran since Saturday, the Iranian Red Crescent said today.

Israel has said it is conducting “simultaneous strikes in Tehran and Beirut”, claiming it has struck Hezbollah “centre of gravity” in Beirut.

Funerals have begun for the dozens of young students killed in their classrooms on the first day of the US-Israeli bombardment of Iran.

Iran’s foreign ministry has accused the US and Israel of war crimes, claiming that civilian infrastructure had been deliberately targeted.

US embassies in Saudi Arabia and Kuwait have been hit in strikes amid Iranian bombardment, sources told CNN. They have since closed.

Non-emergency US government personnel in Jordan, Bahrain, Iraq, Qatar, Kuwait and the United Arab Emirates have been ordered to depart due to security concerns.

Six US service members have now died following a direct Iranian strike on a makeshift operations centre at a civilian port in Kuwait on Sunday.