By JON GAMBRELL, DAVID RISING and SAMY MAGDY

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates  — Iran hit the U.S. Embassy in Saudi Arabia’s capital with a drone strike early Tuesday as it kept striking targets around the region, while the United States and Israel pounded Iran with airstrikes in what U.S. President Donald Trump suggested was just the start of a relentless campaign that could last more than a month.

The attack from two drones on the U.S. Embassy in Riyadh caused a “limited fire” and minor damage, according to Saudi Arabia’s Defense Ministry, which did not release further details. It follows an attack the day before on the U.S. Embassy in Kuwait.

The expansion of Iranian retaliation across the Gulf and the intensity of the Israeli and American attacks, the killing of Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and the lack of any apparent exit plan portend a possible prolonged conflict with far-reaching consequences.

Many countries deemed safe havens in the Mideast have been hit by Iran in retaliation for the U.S. and Israeli strikes, with recent targets including two Amazon data centers in the United Arab Emirates and a drone impact near another in Bahrain that caused damage, the company said Tuesday. Iran has also hit energy facilities in Qatar and Saudi Arabia, and attacked several ships Strait of Hormuz, the narrow mouth of the Persian Gulf through which a fifth of all oil traded passes, sending global oil and natural gas prices soaring.

The U.S. State Department urged U.S. citizens to leave more than a dozen Middle Eastern countries due to safety risks, as have many other countries, though with much of the airspace closed many remain stranded.

Trump said operations are likely to last four to five weeks but that he was prepared “to go far longer than that.”

“The hardest hits are yet to come from the U.S. military,” Secretary of State Marco Rubio told reporters before briefing members of Congress about the Iran operation.

Hundreds dead in Iran and dozens in Lebanon along with 11 in Israel

The Iranian Red Crescent Society said the U.S.-Israeli operation has killed at least 555 people. In Israel, where several locations were hit by Iranian missiles, 11 people were killed. Israel’s retaliatory strikes against Hezbollah killed dozens of people in Lebanon.

“Military escalation would force more families from their homes and hit civilians hard,” said Amy Pope, director general of the International Organization on Migration as she called Tuesday for the international community to press for de-escalation.

“Millions are already displaced in the region,” she said.

The U.S. military has confirmed six deaths of American service members. All six were Army soldiers and part of the same logistics unit in Kuwait, according to a U.S. official who was not authorized to comment publicly and spoke on condition of anonymity.

Three people were reported killed in the United Arab Emirates, and one each in Kuwait and Bahrain.

Iran’s top diplomat on Monday shared a photo showing graves he said were for more than 160 girls killed during a U.S.-Israeli strike on a school in Minab. “Their bodies were torn to shreds,” Abbas Araghchi, the country’s foreign minister, said on X.

In Israel, three young siblings killed by an Iranian strike were being laid to rest at the Mount of Olives in Jerusalem on Monday night.

The chaos of the conflict became apparent when the U.S. military said Kuwait had “mistakenly shot down” three American fighter jets while Iran was attacking it with aircraft, ballistic missiles and drones. U.S. Central Command said all six pilots ejected safely.

Israel and U.S. target nuclear facilities and missile infrastructure

Iranian state TV said strikes caused two explosions early Tuesday at a broadcasting facility in Tehran, but said no one was injured.

Reza Najafi, Iran’s ambassador to the International Atomic Energy Agency, told reporters that airstrikes targeted the Natanz nuclear enrichment site on Sunday.

“Their justification that Iran wants to develop nuclear weapons is simply a big lie,” he said.

Israel and the U.S. have not acknowledged strikes at the site, which the U.S. bombed in the 12-day war between Iran and Israel in June. Israel has said it is targeting the “leadership and nuclear infrastructure.”

Trump said the military campaign’s objectives are to destroy Iran’s missile capabilities, wipe out its navy, prevent it from obtaining a nuclear weapon and ensure that it cannot continue to support allied groups like Lebanon’s Hezbollah, which fired missiles at Israel on Monday.

Iran has said it has not enriched uranium since June, though it has maintained its right to do so and says its nuclear program is peaceful.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu maintained, however, that Iran was rebuilding “new sites, new places” underground for making atomic bombs in an interview broadcast late Monday on Fox News Channel’s Hannity.

“We had to take the action now and we did,” said Netanyahu, who offered no evidence to support his claim.

Satellite photos analyzed by The Associated Press showed limited activity at two nuclear sites in Iran before the war. Analysts said Tehran was likely assessing damage from the 2025 U.S. strikes and possibly salvaging what remained.

Attacks on Iran have drawn in proxy forces from around region

The conflict has also spread to Lebanon, where the Iranian-supported militant group Hezbollah fired missiles at Israel on Monday, though there were no reports of injuries or damage.

Israel retaliated with strikes on Lebanon. The country’s Health Ministry reported at least 52 people were killed and 154 wounded in overnight strikes in the Beirut suburbs and southern Lebanon.

An Israeli military spokesman, Brig. Gen. Effie Defrin, said Israel is keeping “all options on the table,” including a potential ground invasion of Lebanon.

Israel hit Beirut with more airstrikes early Tuesday morning, saying it was targeting “Hezbollah command centers and weapons storage facilities.”

Hezbollah also said it launched drones targeting an Israeli air base. The Israeli military said it downed two drones.

An Iranian-linked militant in Iraq has also claimed strikes on U.S. military facilities.

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Melanie Lidman in Tel Aviv, Israel, Hallie Golden in Seattle, Washington and Giovanna Dell’Orto in Miami contributed to this report. Rising reported from Bangkok and Magdy from Cairo.

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The U.S. Embassy in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, was attacked by two drones according to initial estimates from the Saudi Ministry of Defense in a statement early Tuesday, as Iran appeared to be expanding its assault on American allies in the region.

The ministry said there was “limited fire and minor material damage to the building.” However, the embassy warned people to avoid the location, saying there had been “an attack on the facility” and issued a security alert and a shelter in place notification for the cities of Jeddah, Riyadh and Dhahran.

“We recommend American citizens in the Kingdom to shelter in place immediately,” it said, noting that it was limiting “nonessential travel to any military installations in the region.”

The embassy’s announcement came as nations across the Middle East hosting U.S. military bases were facing Iran’s ire following the U.S.-Israeli war on Iran that began Saturday and that has killed many top military and political officials in Iran, including the country’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.

Riyadh had been spared the spate of attacks that had rocked other Gulf cities including, Dubai in the United Arab Emirates, and Manama, the capital of Bahrain. Most of the city’s embassies, including the U.S. Embassy, are in a secluded, heavily secured and gated neighborhood called the Diplomatic Quarters.

But the fortifications there were built to prevent risks such as suicide attacks, not drones.

Iran has fired hundreds of missiles and drones at Gulf States in retaliation after the barrage of U.S. and Israeli strikes over the past three days. The majority of the Iranian attacks were intercepted, according to the governments of the gulf countries.

At least four people were killed and more than 100 others were injured in the attacks across the United Arab Emirates, Kuwait, Qatar, Bahrain and Oman as of Sunday, according to official reports tallied by The New York Times.

The toll of the fighting on U.S. service members also rose Monday, with six military personnel killed in the fighting, according to U.S. Central Command.

Iran has launched at least 390 missiles and 830 drone attacks across the Persian Gulf, home to several U.S. military bases, according to government reports. The United States Central Command said Sunday that Iran had attacked more than a dozen locations in the region, including civilian centers like airports, hotels and residential areas.

Early Tuesday, the United Arab Emirates’ ministry of defense said on social media that the Emirates’ air defenses were “dealing with a barrage of ballistic missiles coming from Iran.”

Similarly, the defense ministry of Bahrain said its air defense systems have successfully destroyed and downed 70 missiles and 76 drones from Iran since the conflict began.

Sirens also sounded in Israel and the military sent residents in several areas there to shelters after saying it detected launches from Iran for about an hour early Tuesday. The U.S. Embassy in Jerusalem had on Monday directed that all U.S. government employees and their family members continue to shelter in place in and near their residences until further notice, and said it would be closed Tuesday.

The hostilities in the region have left travelers scrambling. In recent days, airstrikes forced the closure of airports in Dubai, Abu Dhabi and Doha, Qatar. In Dubai, the largest Emirati city and the business and tourism capital of the Middle East, five-star hotels have caught fire, explosions have shattered the windows of apartment towers and the emirate’s bustling international airport was damaged, injuring four people.

The United States and Israel are also continuing to target Iran. Israel said it had targeted the Iranian regime’s broadcaster in Tehran around midnight.

In a post on social media Tuesday in the Middle East, U.S. Central Command said “this morning, U.S. forces are hitting Iran surgically, overwhelmingly, and unapologetically.”

This article originally appeared in The New York Times.

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