US president Donald Trump has predicted the war in the Middle East could be over soon, even as Iran's hardliners staged a show of loyalty to new supreme leader Mojtaba Khamenei in a sign that it was not prepared to back down any time soon.  

It’s now the 11th day of the war engulfing the region. We get the latest on the war with Bel Trew, The Independent's Chief International Correspondent, in Beirut currently.