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A missile launched from Yemen towards Israel was "most likely successfully intercepted," the Israeli Defence Forces has said.

In a statement, the IDF said: "Following the sirens that sounded a short while ago in several areas in Israel, one missile was launched from Yemen.

"An interceptor was launched toward the missile, and the missile was most likely successfully intercepted."

It isn't clear who fired the missile, but Israel and the Iran-backed Houthis have been engaged in back-and-forth strikes since the 7 October attacks.

The Houthis have been attacking Israel in what they say is solidarity with Gaza.

But Israel threatens a naval and air blockade if attacks continue.

Over the past the past roughly 20 months, the Houthis, who control most of Yemen, have been firing at Israel and shipping in the Red Sea, disrupting global trade.

Most attacks have fallen short and Israel has carried out retaliatory strikes.

Iran's proxies

But during the 12-day war, the Houthis, along with the rest of Iran's proxies in the region, were largely absent.

Israel has been fighting a war on several fronts since the attack in 2023 that left around 1,200 dead and around 250 taken hostage.

As part of this, it has decapitated Hezbollah and Hamas - both two of Iran's strongest proxies.

Donald Trump has claimed a Gaza ceasefire is "close".

Taking questions from reporters in the Oval Office late yesterday, the US president said: "We think within the next week we're going to get a ceasefire."

He added: "We're working on Gaza and trying to get it taken care of."

Such an agreement has long been elusive and it's unclear if things will be any different this time.

Focus in the Middle East in recent weeks has shifted to the fighting between Israel and Iran.

However, dire conditions have continued in Gaza, with many struggling.

The distribution of aid has been a flashpoint since Israel supplanted the UN with a US-backed group.

It did this because, it claims, Hamas intercepted the aid, something the UN denies.

Recent weeks have seen repeated fatal incidents around aid trucks and facilities where dozens of Palestinians have been killed by alleged Israeli fire.

Here are some of the latest pictures from the Middle East.

In Tehran, thousands took to the streets, mourning top military commanders and scientists killed in the 12-day war with Israel.

The caskets of the head of the Revolutionary Guard General Hossein Salami, the head of the guard's ballistic missile programme, General Amir Ali Hajizadeh and others were driven on trucks along the Iranian capital's Azadi Street.

Chants of "death to America" and "death to Israel" could be heard.

There was no immediate sign of the supreme leader in the state broadcast of the funeral.

Over the almost two weeks of fighting, Israel claimed it killed around 30 Iranian commanders and 11 nuclear scientists.

Overnight, Donald Trump and Iran's foreign minister engaged in a bitter war of words.

As the dust settled from 12 days of fighting between Israel and Iran, Trump took issue with claims from Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei.

Khamenei, in posts on social media, claimed victory over Israel and criticised the US president.

In response, Trump shared a lengthy post on his social media platform. 

We'll sum up some of the key points and share his full message below:

• Trump said Khamenei's claims were a "lie" and that his nuclear infrastructure was "decimated";
• He said that he had called back Israeli planes heading for Iran in the week;
• Trump also said, after the Iranian claims, he had dropped work on sanction relief,
• And he warned Iran: "It will only get worse".

In response, Iranian foreign minister Abbas Araghchi warned Trump to "put aside the disrespectful and unacceptable tone towards Iran's Supreme Leader".

"The Great and Powerful Iranian People, who showed the world that the Israeli regime had NO CHOICE but to RUN to 'Daddy' to avoid being flattened by our Missiles, do not take kindly to Threats and Insults," he added.

Read his full response below in the latest verbal blows traded between the US and Iran:

For context: Threatening messages back and forth between the two sides are nothing new.

Throughout the fighting, Iran has tried to project strength, despite suffering heavy losses from Israeli attacks.

Similarly, Trump is well-known for his social media tirades and politics-by-posting.

Hello and welcome back to our live coverage.

Stick with us for updates throughout the day and here's a recap of the latest news:

• Donald Trump lashed out at Iran's supreme leader overnight over claims Tehran won the war against Israel;
• In response, Iran's foreign minister said that Israel ran to "daddy" after strange comments about the US president made at NATO this week;
• Elsewhere, the Israeli army said that a missile launched from Yemen was "most likely successfully intercepted';
• In Tehran, thousands mourned top military commanders and scientists killed in the 12-day war with Israel;
• But in Gaza, Trump claimed a possible ceasefire would be possible within a week;
• Meanwhile, radiation levels in the Gulf region "remain normal" following Israeli and US strikes on Iran's nuclear infrastructure, the nuclear watchdog said;
• And the US Senate rejected efforts to restrain Trump from escalating the conflict with Iran.

Thanks for joining, we'll be back with any breaking news.

Until then, here's a rundown of what's happened over the last 24 hours:

• Top Trump cabinet officials have maintained that US strikes on Iran's nuclear facilities last week were a total success;
• "Destroyed, defeated, obliterated - choose your word, this was a historically successful attack," defence secretary Pete Hegseth said at a news conference at the Pentagon;
• General Dan Caine, the highest-ranking officer in the US military, claimed that all the bombs dropped on the Fordow nuclear site "went exactly where they were intended to go";
• In a televised speech earlier - the first time he'd been seen in more than a week - Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said the US attacks "failed to achieve anything significant";
• Meanwhile the government in Iran has officially passed a law ending cooperation with the global nuclear watchdog;
• Despite this, the International Atomic Energy Agency says Tehran is yet to notify it of any change.

Iran's foreign minister says Tehran has no plans to resume nuclear talks with the US.

"No agreement or arrangement has been made to resume negotiations. Neither any promise has been given, nor any discussion has taken place on this matter," Abbas Araghchi told Iranian state TV.

Yesterday, Donald Trump claimed the US and Iran would resume talks next week after they broke off at the start of Israel's 12-day war with Tehran.

At the White House press briefing today, press secretary Karoline Leavitt said there were no talks planned "as of now", but that the US administration is "on a diplomatic path" with Iran.

By Mark Stone, US correspondent

Two things can be true at the same time.

It's possible that the American airstrikes did "obliterate" the Iranian nuclear sites hit on Saturday night.

It's also possible that Iran retains stockpiles of enriched uranium and nuclear production equipment elsewhere - undisclosed.

We know from the International Atomic Energy Agency that Iran has been obstructive, and we know too that the regime has attempted to build new facilities.

This pattern of behaviour makes it possible, even probable, that they have existing hidden programmes.

Preliminary intelligence reports shared with European governments indicated that Iran's highly-enriched uranium stockpile remains largely intact and that much of it was not concentrated in the Fordow site.

Given all this, the storm around the level of destruction caused by Saturday's American airstrikes could be a distraction. Nevertheless, the early morning Pentagon news conference revealed plenty.

There were two strands to the briefing. From the politician, we got a political attack, and from the general, we got the military detail.

Donald Trump is currently hosting a White House event to help push through his centrepiece tax legislation, the 'Big Beautiful Bill'.

While giving remarks about the bill, Trump briefly goes off track to mention America's strikes on Iran's nuclear facilities.

"They hit the target and the target has now been proven to be obliterated," he says.

As we've reported, Democrats have rallied against the president over his assessment of the strikes, claiming Trump has overexaggerated their success without first seeing a full damage report.

Senate minority leader Chuck Schumer has added his voice to the list of Democrats dissatisfied with a classified briefing about US strikes on Iran.

Speaking to reporters on Capitol Hill, Schumer said there was "no coherent strategy" from the Trump administration.

"President Trump said that the nuclear stockpile was completely and totally obliterated. I did not receive an adequate answer to that question," he said. 

"What was clear is that there was no coherent strategy, no end game, no plan, no specific, no detailed plan on how Iran does not attain a nuclear weapon."

Schumer said that Congress needs to enforce the War Powers Act "and force them to articulate an answer to some specific questions and a coherent strategy right away".

The War Powers Act was passed in the 1970s to divide authority over military action between Congress and the president. Critics say Trump violated the act with his strikes on Iran.