Pakistan announces US-Iran talks 'in coming days'

Pakistan is ready to "facilitate meaningful and conclusive talks" to end the conflict in the Middle East, "subject to" an agreement from the U.S. and Iran to hold discussions, Pakistan's Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif said in a post on X Tuesday.

"Subject to concurrence by the US and Iran, Pakistan stands ready and honoured to be the host to facilitate meaningful and conclusive talks for a comprehensive settlement of the ongoing conflict," Sharif said. 

President Donald Trump later reposted the prime minister's post on his Truth Social account. 

A contractor working for the United Arab Emirates was killed and five members of the military were injured in a missile attack in Bahrain, the UAE Ministry of Defense announced in a post on X Tuesday.

The incident happened during a routine mission in Bahrain, UAE's military said. The contractor was a Moroccan national working as a civilian contractor with the UAE's Ministry of Defense, according to the military.

Bahrain's Defense Force said the contractor was killed "performing his national duty alongside his brothers in the Bahrain Defense Force in confronting the sinful Iranian attacks."

Air defenses in Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates continued to engage and intercepted dozens of projectiles from Iran, authorities said Tuesday.

The Ministry of Defense of the UAE said 17 drones and five ballistic missiles launched by Iran were engaged on Tuesday.

In Bahrain, 19 more drones and six more missiles were intercepted, the country's defense force said in a post on social media.

Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz said in a situational assessment Tuesday that the Israeli military will destroy homes in southern Lebanon just as it did in the war-torn Gaza Strip, in a continued effort to eliminate Hezbollah militants from the area.

Israel will implement "the Rafah and Beit Hanoun models," Katz said, referring to two Gaza border towns that Israel destroyed in its offensive in the Palestinian territory. Katz said Israeli forces are not just destroying Hezbollah infrastructure but also houses in Lebanese villages near the Israeli border that he claims "serve as terrorist outposts for all intents and purposes."

Katz also said that "all bridges over the Litani" river in southern Lebanon allegedly used by Hezbollah to transport militants and weapons "have been blown up." The Israeli military has issued forced evacuations for all residents south of the river in recent weeks.

-ABC News' Jordana Miller and Morgan Winsor