TEHRAN, Sept. 2 (Xinhua) -- A top Iranian security official vowed Wednesday Iran's new strategy in the fields of war, diplomacy and economy will soon shatter the U.S. foundations.Iran's new strategy on the battlefield as well as in the fields of diplomacy and countering the economic siege will shatter your (U.S.) foundations, Secretary of Iran's Supreme National Security Council Mohsen Rezaei posted on X, reacting to the deadly overnight U.S. attacks.Earlier in the day, U.S. Central Command said on X its forces had successfully completed a wave of strikes against Iranian military targets, citing recent attempted attacks by the IRGC against commercial shipping in the Strait of Hormuz and against American service members.Iran responded by attacking U.S. bases and assets in Jordan, Kuwait, Bahrain, Iraq's semi-autonomous Kurdistan region and the United Arab Emirates.

BEIRUT, Sept. 2 (Xinhua) -- One person was killed and another injured on Wednesday in a series of Israeli airstrikes and intense artillery shelling that hit wide areas of southern Lebanon, according to the civil defense and state media.A Lebanese Civil Defense official told Xinhua that an Israeli drone targeted an apartment in the Al-Rouweiss neighborhood of Nabatieh al-Fawqa, killing one person and injuring another.The National News Agency reported that Israeli airstrikes targeted the Al-Rouweiss neighborhood in Nabatieh al-Fawqa, destroying more civilian homes. It added that the town of Arab Salim was also hit in a strike.According to the agency, Israeli artillery also continued its intense shelling of the Ali al-Taher Heights and several other areas.The strikes came amid continued tensions along the Lebanon-Israel border, following the seventh round of Lebanese-Israeli talks held in Rome, Italy, in early August. The talks focused on security arrangements along the border and the implementation of a framework agreement between the two sides.

JERUSALEM, Sept. 2 (Xinhua) -- Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said during a visit to the Gaza Strip on Wednesday that Israeli troops would remain in the enclave along the so-called Yellow Line.We control the territory. We are not withdrawing. We are staying on this line, Netanyahu said in a video released by his office. He said Israel would continue its operations until Hamas was disarmed and Gaza demilitarized.He said Israel now controlled about 60 percent of the Gaza Strip, adding: There is more to come, as we continue to kill militants who threaten us on a daily basis.The Yellow Line was established under an October 2025 U.S.-brokered ceasefire as the line to which Israeli forces were initially to withdraw. The plan envisaged further Israeli withdrawals alongside steps including the disarmament of Hamas, but Netanyahu rejected the U.S.-backed 15-point Gaza peace plan in August.Israel has pushed its positions further into Gaza, expanding the territory under its military control. Netanyahu said in May that he had ordered the military to expand its control to 70 percent of the enclave.

GAZA, Sept. 2 (Xinhua) -- Inside a modest tent in Deir al-Balah, in the central Gaza Strip, Mohammed Saad sits surrounded by thousands of books that survived the war.He picks up a book, gently wipes the dust from its cover, and flips through its pages before placing it among rows of novels, historical works, scientific publications and philosophical books.For Saad, 58, this is more than sorting books. It is an attempt to bring back to life a part of his world that he thought had been buried beneath the rubble.A father of five, Saad spent 35 years collecting books. Before the war, he owned between 80,000 and 100,000 books in Beit Lahia, northern Gaza, some of which he sold in front of the Islamic University in Gaza City.When his home and warehouse were destroyed during the Israeli war on Gaza, he believed his entire collection was gone.About three months ago, he returned to his ruined home and began searching through the debris.I didn't care about my house or my personal belongings, Saad told Xinhua. The first thing I started searching for among the rubble was my books and my library.For weeks, with help from neighbors, he recovered more than 30,000 books and transported them to Deir al-Balah.I couldn't believe I had saved so many books, he said. I truly cried. For me, they are not just books; they represent life, history and happiness.After the books arrived in Deir al-Balah, Saad refused to keep them stacked away, safe from damage but out of readers' reach.Instead, he established al-Athar Library, Arabic for the Impact, a modest space where people can read, buy, or borrow books.I'm not looking for money or material gain, Saad said as he continued dusting and arranging the books. All I want is for these books to reach people so they can read, learn and benefit from them.The library still lacks a proper building, adequate shelves, and suitable storage facilities. Yet readers have begun to arrive.Women and children are among the most interested visito...

TEHRAN/KUWAIT CITY, Sept. 2 (Xinhua) -- At least 19 people, including military personnel and civilians, were killed in overnight U.S. strikes across several provinces in Iran, as the country's armed forces retaliated by attacking U.S. bases and assets in the region, Iranian media reported Wednesday.The U.S. attacks on Iran's southwestern Khuzestan province killed seven people and wounded eight others, the semi-official Mehr news agency cited Valiollah Hayati, Khuzestan's deputy governor for security and law enforcement affairs, as saying.The report said U.S. strikes on southern Lavan Island killed three members of the Basij volunteer force of Iran's Islamic Revolution Guard Corps (IRGC), while four members of the IRGC's Aerospace division were killed in strikes on the western province of Kermanshah.A commando, identified as Malek Mousavi-Tabar, was killed Wednesday morning during operations to counter the movements of an invading drone in Bahmai County in the western Kohgiluyeh and Boyer-Ahmad province, it added.It also cited provincial authorities as saying that four people were killed and 68 others wounded in a U.S. attack targeting a wedding ceremony in Sirik County in southern Hormozgan province. The victims included one four-year-old child, a teenager and two women.In a post on social media platform X earlier in the day, U.S. Central Command said its forces had successfully completed a wave of strikes against Iranian military targets, citing recent attempted attacks by the IRGC against commercial shipping in the Strait of Hormuz and against American service members.In retaliation for the U.S. strikes, Iran's IRGC and army announced that they targeted U.S. bases and assets in Jordan, Kuwait, Bahrain, Iraq's semi-autonomous Kurdistan region and the United Arab Emirates (UAE).In statements published on its official news outlet Sepah News, the IRGC said its forces shot down a hostile U.S. MQ-9 Reaper drone and launched ballistic missiles toward Camp Titin in ...

Chinese President Xi Jinping and Egyptian President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi welcomed the renewal of a bilateral local currency swap agreement and the expansion of the swap amount, said a joint statement on Wednesday.