The death toll is rising as Israel and Iran traded missile strikes for a third straight day. The death toll grew Sunday as Israel and Iran exchanged missile attacks for a third consecutive day, with Israel warning that worse is to come.

Videos and images verified by NBC News piece together a picture of the deprivation and chaos of Gaza's hospitals.

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Israel unleashed airstrikes across Iran for a third day on Sunday and threatened even greater force as some Iranian missiles evaded Israeli air defenses to strike buildings in the heart of the country. Planned talks on Iran’s nuclear program, which could provide an off-ramp, were canceled.

The neoconservatives who orchestrated the disastrous wars with Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria and Libya — and who were never held accountable for the profligate waste of $8 trillion taxpayer dollars, as well as $69 billion squandered in Ukraine — look set to lure us into yet another military fiasco with Iran.

The timing of Israel’s air strikes suggest to some that the US influence over Benjamin Netanyahu has weakened.

U.S. embassies and military bases across the Middle East are on high alert, as fears grow about an Israeli strike on Iran.

IRAN launched scores of ballistic missiles at Israel in multiple waves as the Ayatollah’s vengeance edges the Middle East towards all-out war. Dozens of Israeli civilians were injured and