Follow the latest news after Israel launched strikes at Iran, a dramatic escalation in long-running tensions between the two countries.

Israel attacked Tehran early Friday and killed many of the country’s top military leaders and scientists. The United States said it was not involved in the strikes.

Oil prices surged, stocks dropped and investors flocked to safe havens like gold on Friday after tensions between Israel and Iran escalated, stoking concerns of a broader conflict in the region.

Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei swiftly vowed retaliation, and soon after the strikes Iran launched more than 100 drones toward Israel, according to Israel.

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Israel launched a wave of unprecedented strikes on Iran shortly before sunrise Friday morning, hitting key sites in the nation’s nuclear program.

Israel attacked Iran’s capital early Friday in strikes that targeted the country’s nuclear program and raised the potential for an all-out war between the two bitter Middle East adversaries.

Less than 24 hours before U.S. Rep. Brad Schneider, D-Highland Park, and three of his Congressional colleagues were scheduled to leave on trip to the Middle East, Israel launched a military attack

Russian leader Vladimir Putin told Iran's president over the phone on Friday that Moscow condemned Israeli actions against Tehran, and in a separate telephone conversation told Israel's prime minister that only diplomacy could resolve issues around Iran's nuclear programme.