This satellite image provided by Maxar Technologies shows damage after Israeli airstrikes destroyed buildings at an Iranian missile base near Tabriz, Iran, Tuesday, June 17, 2025.
Flights took off for Israel on Wednesday (June 18, 2025) from Cyprus, airport sources and web flight tracking sites showed, ferrying home Israelis stranded abroad during the conflict with Iran. Israel’s Transportation Ministry has said as many as 150,000 Israelis are abroad, with about a third trying to get home.
Meanwhile, Israel’s military said it struck a Iranian centrifuge production facility and multiple weapons manufacturing sites, in the latest round of strikes between the archfoes.
Israeli strikes have killed at least 585 people across Iran and wounded 1,326 others, a human rights group said. The Washington-based group Human Rights Activists said it had identified 239 of the dead as civilians and 126 as security personnel. Intense Israeli airstrikes targeted Iran’s capital after it issued a warning about a new area it could target, a day after U.S. President Donald Trump demanded “unconditional surrender.”
Iranian state television on Tuesday afternoon urged people to remove WhatsApp from their smartphones, alleging without specific evidence that the messaging app gathered user information to send to Israel.
Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps on Wednesday said that hypersonic missiles were used during the latest attack on Israel, as fighting between the archfoes entered a sixth day. The Hindu
