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)

Rescue workers at the scene of a direct hit a day after an Iranian missile struck in Tel Aviv, Israel, on Sunday (Oded Balilty/AP)

A man walks away after watching as a black plume of smoke rises from a warehouse in the industrial area of Sharjah City, United Arab Emirates, on Sunday (Altaf Qadri/AP)

Paramedics evacuate wounded people from the site of a deadly Iranian missile strike in Beit Shemesh, Israel, on Sunday (Leo Correa/AP)

Israeli security forces inspect a damaged road after a missile launched from Iran struck Jerusalem on Sunday (Mahmoud Illean/AP)

Rescue workers and military personnel operate at the scene where several people were killed in an Iranian missile strike in Beit Shemesh, Israel, on Sunday (Leo Correa/AP)

A man holds an Iranian flag as he looks at the damaged facade of Gandhi Hospital in Tehran, which was hit on Sunday when a strike also struck a state TV communications tower and nearby buildings across the street (Vahid Salemi/AP)

A plume of smoke rises after a strike in Tehran on Monday (Vahid Salemi/AP)

Debris in a room of Gandhi Hospital in Tehran (Vahid Salemi/AP)

A black plume of smoke rises from a warehouse at the industrial area of Sharjah City in the United Arab Emirates on Sunday (Altaf Qadri/AP)

A destroyed police station in Tehran on Monday (Vahid Salemi/AP)

Relatives grieve during a funeral of a fighter with the Kataib Hezbollah, who was killed in a US airstrike, in Baghdad, Iraq, on Monday (Hadi Mizban/AP)

Mourners take cover while air-raid sirens warn of incoming missiles launched by Iran toward Israel during the funeral of Sarah Elimelech and her daughter Ronit who were killed in an Iranian missile attack, in Beit Shemesh, Israel, on Monday (Ohad Zwigenbe