Live. Kuwait City tower on fire as Iranian air strikes continue across Gulf countries

Explosions hit Iran's central Yazd province on Sunday, state media reported, as the war rages with the United States and Israel.

It was not immediately clear what was hit in the strikes but the official IRNA news agency said the blasts occurred on the periphery of Yazd city.

Earlier explosions were reported in other parts of the country including the Iranian capital Tehran and the central Isfahan province.

Euronews correspondents in Doha observed at least six Airbus and Boeing passenger flights taking off on Sunday morning after Qatar Airways announced the resumption of limited flights through a safe operating corridor.

These take-offs did not appear on aviation portal Flightradar24 indicating they departed with their transponders off as a safety precaution.

However, Flightradar24 showed these flights briefly taxiing for departure, with only one of them showing its destination as Frankfurt.

Qatar Airways said on Saturday it would operate flights to London, Paris, Madrid, Rome, Frankfurt and Madrid. Up to 8,000 passengers are reported to have been stranded in Qatar with the government covering the costs of hotel accommodation and extending their visas.

Air raid alerts are sounding again in Dubai after a prolonged and intense wave of Iranian drone and missile attacks on Saturday night, Euronews correspondents in the city say.

Our teams on the ground will update with more information as they get it.

Sri Lanka discharged 22 Iranian crew from hospital who were rescued from life rafts after their warship was sunk by a US submarine, officials said on Sunday.

The crew had been treated at Karapitiya Hospital in the southern port city of Galle since Wednesday after the IRIS Dena was torpedoed just outside Sri Lanka's territorial waters.

The attack on Dena was the first military strike far outside the Middle East since the United States and Israel launched their war on Iran a week ago.

Egypt’s Foreign Minister Badr Abdelatty called for de-escalation on Sunday to stop the war in the Middle East from expanding even further.

Abdelatty’s comments were made during a phone call on Saturday evening with his Saudi counterpart, Faisal bin Farhan, according to a statement by the Egyptian Foreign Ministry.

Israel’s military said on Sunday that it had struck a series of fighter jets that pre-revolutionary Iran purchased from the United States.

The fleet of F-14s parked at Isfahan Airport, south of Tehran, was a pillar of the Iranian air force and historically used to defend its airspace.

The Israeli military did not say whether the jets were destroyed. It also said it had struck detection and air defence systems.

The United States and Israel hit five oil facilities in overnight strikes in and near the Iranian capital, an official told state TV.

"Last night, four oil depots and a petroleum products transport centre in Tehran and the Alborz were attacked by enemy aircraft," the CEO of the National Iranian Oil Products Distribution Company Keramat Veyskarami told state TV.

He added that the five facilities "were damaged" but the "fire was brought under control."

Air raid sirens sounded across Israel early on Sunday, warning of incoming missiles from Iran, with no reports of damage or casualties.

Israeli military statements said air defences were responding to at least four waves of "missiles launched from Iran toward the territory of the State of Israel" within about five hours.

Alerts were activated across much of northern, southern and central Israel including in major cities like Tel Aviv, Haifa and Beersheba, according to the army's Home Front Command, which ordered residents to go into shelters or safe rooms.

The alerts were later lifted, with the military saying, "it is now permitted to leave protected spaces in all areas of the country."

Israeli media reported that several missiles were launched and most had been intercepted.

Falling missile debris injured three people and damaged a university building in Bahrain on Sunday, the interior ministry said, as Iran pressed its air campaign against neighbouring Gulf states.

"As a result of the blatant Iranian aggression, 3 people were injured and material damage was inflicted on a university building in the Muharraq area after missile fragments fell," the ministry said in a statement, referring to an island area northwest of Manama.

Bahrain also said a water desalination plant was damaged in the drone attack.

The Israeli military said it launched a wave of strikes "across Iran" on Sunday, targeting military sites.

A military statement said it had "initiated a wave of strikes targeting the Iranian terror regime military infrastructure across Iran."

Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian said his country "will be forced to respond" to any attack or invasion attempt from a neighbouring country, in remarks aired by state TV on Sunday.

If Iran's enemies "try to use any country to attack or invade our land, we will be forced to respond to that attack. Responding does not mean we have disputes with that country or wish to harm its people. We would be responding out of necessity," said Pezeshkian.

On Saturday the president apologised to neighbouring countries hosting US military bases for attacks on their territory.