In Pictures: US-Israeli strikes and Iran’s response

A plume of smoke rises after a strike in Tehran, Iran, on Monday (Mohsen Ganji/AP)

Iran and Iranian-backed militias fired missiles at Israel and Arab states, apparently hitting the US embassy compound in Kuwait, while Israel and the United States pounded targets in Iran as the war expanded on Monday with statements of defiance and increasing casualties.

Flames and smoke after Israeli airstrikes on Dahiyeh, a southern suburb of Beirut, Lebanon, on Monday (Hassan Ammar/AP)