India, June 19 -- The fighting between Israel and Iran continued on Thursday as the Israel military said it downed a second Iranian done in less than an hour. Israel said it struck over 20 military targets in Tehran even as 24 people were killed in Iranian strikes, with over 240 people dead in Israeli strikes on Iran.

Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei rejected US calls for 'unconditional surrender' in the face of more Israeli strikes and warned that the US military involvement would cause "irreparable damage to them." Follow LIVE updates

- Senior US officials are preparing for the possibility of a strike on Iran in the coming days, Bloomberg News has said. The development comes even as reports said that US President Donald Tr...