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Gaza militants fired rockets and Israel carried out airstrikes early Friday as tensions soared following an Israeli raid in the occupied West Bank.

U.S. military carried out airstrikes in eastern Syria that targeted areas used by militias backed by Iran’s paramilitary Revolutionary Guard.

Ukrainian authorities said the Russians also attacked at least a half-dozen railroad stations around the country.

Russia’s troops and the separatist forces appear to have made only minor gains.

Ukraine’s forces, meanwhile, fought to hold off Russian attempts to advance in the south and east.

An estimated 100,000 people remained trapped in Mariupol.

Russia pressed its invasion of Ukraine to the outskirts of the capital Friday from three sides in an attack that could rewrite the global post-Cold War security order.

The United Arab Emirates intercepted two ballistic missiles claimed by Yemen’s Houthi rebels over the skies of Abu Dhabi early Monday.

The US military will remain involved in the Afghanistan war into September, keeping the option of launching airstrikes against the Taliban to defend Afghan forces, US officials said Thursday.

Homes and apartments in the Gaza Strip, including the house of a Hamas leader, were bombed and destroyed as Israel slammed the region with airstrikes on Saturday night.