Israeli authorities triggered alerts for renewed missile attacks on Sunday, including around Tel Aviv, after deadly Iranian missiles destroyed buildings overnight and President Donald Trump urged both sides to "make a deal.

Russia has maintained a delicate balancing act in the Middle East for decades, trying to navigate its warm relations with Israel even as it has developed strong economic and military ties with Iran.

The missile and air war that Israel and Iran have spent decades planning for has come, and it is spectacular and terrifying.

Israeli strikes on Iran on Friday and Tehran's vows of reprisals have brought the two Middle East adversaries closer to an all-out war, which also threatens to draw in the United States, at least to ...