In photos: U.S. says bombardment to surge as Israeli strikes on Iran, Lebanon intensify
Iran launched new retaliatory attacks in the Middle East at the end of a full week of bombardment, while intense Israeli air strikes pounded the capitals of Iran and Lebanon Friday.
Smoke rises after an Israeli strike on Beirut's southern suburbs on Friday.Khalil Ashawi/Reuters
The site of an Israeli air strike that targeted Mar Mikhael neighbourhood in Beirut's southern suburbs.-/AFP/Getty Images
An Israeli strike hits Beirut's southern suburbs on Friday evening.Khalil Ashawi/Reuters
Displaced people fleeing Israeli air strikes in Beirut's southern suburbs stop to rest along the coast.Hussein Malla/The Associated Press
Smoke rises following an Israeli airstrike in Dahiyeh, Beirut's southern suburbs.Hussein Malla/The Associated Press
An airplane flies over Beirut as smoke from an Israeli strike rises over city's southern suburbs on Friday.Khalil Ashawi/Reuters
A man stands amid the rubble from overnight Israeli air strikes in the southern suburbs of Beirut.-/AFP/Getty Images
Israeli military vehicles amass on the Israeli side of the border with Lebanon.Ammar Awad/Reuters
Iranians hold Friday prayers in the courtyard of the e Imam Khomeini Mosque in Tehran.Vahid Salemi/The Associated Press
A vehicle is crushed under rubble after an Israeli strike on Beirut's southern suburbs.Stringer/Reuters
People displaced by Israeli air strikes in Beirut's southern suburbs warm themselves around a fire near a makeshift tent.Hassan Ammar/The Associated Press
An Israeli air strike causes a powerful explosion in Tehran on Friday evening.ATTA KENARE/AFP/Getty Images
Emergency responders converge on a building targeted by an Israeli air strike in the southern Lebanese coastal city of Sidon.MAHMOUD ZAYYAT/AFP/Getty Images
Iranians protest against the joint U.S.–Israeli military campaign after Friday prayers in Tehran.-/AFP/Getty Images
Smoke rises following Israeli strikes the southern Lebanese village of Odaisseh, near the border with northern Israel.JALAA MAREY/AFP/Getty Images
Residents of the southern Lebanese border town Marjeyoun gather to assert their intention to stay despite an evacuation notice issued by the Israeli military earlier this week.RABIH DAHER/AFP/Getty Images
Emergency workers attend the scene of an Iranian air strike in Givatayim, Israel.Alexi J. Rosenfeld/Getty Images
Firefighters respond at the site of an Israeli air strike in Beirut's southern suburbs.-/AFP/Getty Images
Displaced people fleeing Israeli airstrikes in Beirut's southern suburbs sleep on a public walkway.Hussein Malla/The Associated Press
A bulldozer drives amid rubble after an Israeli strike on Beirut's southern suburbs.Stringer/Reuters
People queue at a fuel station in Dhaka, Bangladesh, as concerns grow over fuel prices and shortages.Mohammad Ponir Hossain/Reuters
An explosion lights up the sky over a central Tehran in the morning of March 6.ATTA KENARE/AFP/Getty Images
Lebanese civil defence inspect the site of an overnight Israeli air strike that targeted the village of Douris, in Lebanon's Bekaa valley.NIDAL SOLH/AFP/Getty Images
Israeli soldiers work on tanks at a staging area in northern Israel near the border with Lebanon.Ariel Schalit/The Associated Press
A plume of smoke rises from the site of an Israeli airstrike in the southern Lebanese village of Khiam.RABIH DAHER/AFP/Getty Images
An Iranian drone is intercepted over the Bahrain Financial Harbour towers, which houses the Israeli embassy, in Manama.Stringer/Reuters
A man walks amid the rubble of a destroyed building following overnight Israeli strikes on the southern suburbs of Beirut.-/AFP/Getty Images