Israel expands invasion of southern Lebanon – as it happened

This live blog has now closed. Our coverage of the US-Israel war on Iran and the wider crisis in the Middle East continues here This live blog has now closed. Our coverage of the US-Israel war on Iran and the wider crisis in the Middle East continues here. The US embassy in Baghdad has warned that Iran and its proxies may intend to target American universities in Iraq and could also try to kidnap US citizens. Urging Americans to leave the country “immediately”, the embassy said in a security alert on X that the university targets could include in Baghdad, the city of Sulaymaniyah and the Iraqi Kurdistan city of Dohuk as well as other “universities perceived as connected to the United States”. Iran’s Revolutionary Guards threatened earlier on Monday to target US universities in the Middle East after saying US-Israeli strikes had deliberately targeted two Iranian universities. The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps said in a statement published by Iranian media: double quotation markIf the US government wants its universities in the region to be free from retaliation ... it must condemn the bombing of the universities in an official statement by 12 noon on Monday, March 30,