War in the Middle East isexpandingafter the United States and Israel attacked Iran on Saturday, and Tehran retaliated with strikes against several of its neighbors, including US-allied Gulf states. Israel and Hezbollah are alsotrading blowsas the conflict widens.
CNN is tracking theUS-Israeli strikesacross Iran, and Tehran's retaliatory attacks onUS military basesandconsulates,Israeland other targetsacross the region.
US and Israeli military air strikeskillednumerous members of the Iranian leadership, including theSupreme LeaderAyatollah Khamenei, and more strikes Tuesdaytargetedadditional leaders. Thedeath tollfrom the conflict is growing across many countries.
A look at some of the damage across the region
President Donald TrumptoldCNN's Jake Tapper on Monday that "the biggest surprise" has been Iran's attacks against Arab countries in the region: Bahrain, Jordan, Kuwait, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates.
Iran's top official said Tehran"will not negotiate"with the United States, as Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Gen. Dan Caine said Monday that the war against Iran wouldnot be a "single, overnight operation."
Trump acknowledged there could bemore US casualtiesas the conflict escalates. At leastsix US service memberswere killed in Kuwait in a direct hit on a makeshift operations center at the civilian port of Shuaiba on Sunday morning local time, a source familiar with the situation told CNN.
The conflict has damagedair hubs, rockeddensely populated areasand disruptedoil shipments.
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Shipping disruptions persist in critical waterway amid strikes
The Strait of Hormuz, a narrow waterway off Iran's southern coast, is themain shipping routefor crude from oil-rich countries such as Saudi Arabia and Kuwait to the rest of the world. Iran,which controls the strait's northern side, on Mondaywarnedthat vessels passing through the strait would be targeted, according to an adviser to the commander of Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC).
About one-fifth of daily global production typically flowed through the strait before the current conflict, according to the US Energy Information Administration, which calls the channel a "critical oil chokepoint."
Oil prices surged, already beginning tohike gas prices when Americansare already struggling with affordability. Global oil prices on Monday traded at their highest level in over eight months, since USstrikes on Iranian nuclear facilities in June.
Flight disruptions
Data from Flightradar24 shows virtually no flight traffic over Iran and other Middle Eastern countries after the strikes. This graphic compares air traffic from a week ago to traffic on Saturday evening, local time. A wide corridor of Middle East airspaceremained closedTuesday.
Internet access disrupted across Iran
As of Tuesday morning local time, Iran's internet connectivity dropped to about 1%.
—CNN's Jake Tapper, Christian Edwards, Karina Tsui, Tim Lister, Gianluca Mezzofiore, Lauren Kent, Billy Stockwell, John Towfighi and Adam Pourahmadi contributed to this report.
This story has been updated with additional developments.
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