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Hezbollah announced Saturday it had launched a significant wave of attacks against Israeli forces in southern Lebanon - while reports from Axios indicate that Israel is preparing a large-scale ground invasion of Lebanese territory.

The U.S. Embassy in the Iraqi capital Baghdad was hit in a missiles attack, Iraqi security sources told Reuters on Saturday.

U.S. President Donald Trump threatened to strike the oil infrastructure of Iran's Kharg Island hub unless Tehran stopped attacking vessels in the Strait of Hormuz, a warning that could further roil markets coping with a historic supply disruption.

Bahrain's General Command of the Defence Force announced that its air defence systems have successfully intercepted and destroyed 121 ballistic missiles and 193 drones since the onset of Iranian hostilities - a staggering toll that underscores the relentless scale of Tehran's retaliatory campaign against Gulf states.

The United States is offering a reward of up to $10 million for information about senior Iranian military and intelligence officials, including its new Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei.

As Hezbollah's war with Israel escalates and Lebanon descends deeper into crisis, one regional actor has made its position unmistakably clear: Syria under Ahmed al-Sharaa is not Bashar al-Assad's Syria, and Hezbollah should not mistake the two.

Archaeologists in Turkey have discovered traces of human excrement in a 1,900-year-old glass vial used to hold perfumes or elixirs, which they believe is the first physical evidence that the Romans used faeces medicinally.

U.S. academic Nina Khrushcheva, the great-granddaughter of a former Soviet leader, was designated by Russia on Friday as a "foreign agent" - a term with connotations of spying that Moscow applies to people it views as engaged in anti-Russian activity.

Israel has rebuffed a historic offer of direct talks from Lebanon, deeming it too little too late from a government that shares its goal of disarming Hezbollah but cannot act against the heavily armed Lebanese group without risking a civil war.

A French soldier was killed and six others wounded Thursday evening in a drone attack in the Erbil region of Iraqi Kurdistan, marking the first French military death since the outbreak of the Middle East war.

Iran's Revolutionary Guards announced Friday they had launched a combined missile and drone offensive against Israel, conducted jointly with Tehran-backed Hezbollah.

Iran's new Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei is wounded and likely disfigured, U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said on Friday, questioning Khamenei's ability to govern after nearly two weeks of U.S. and Israeli attacks on Iran.