Gunfire and explosions have rocked Mali's capital Bamako and other key cities in one of the most significant coordinated attacks in years, as armed groups, including jihadist insurgents and separatist rebels exploit worsening insecurity in the Sahel region.

With U.S. gas prices up, President Donald Trump's approval ratings down and the Iran war dragging on, Republicans are recalibrating their blueprint ahead of November's midterm elections.

U.S. Southern Command shared a video showing a boat floating in the water before an explosion left it in flames.

President Donald Trump says the U.S. Navy is clearing Iranian mines from the Strait of Hormuz, a vital sea route for oil shipments whose disruption is increasingly threatening the global economy. Sweeping for underwater explosives could take months despite a tenuous ceasefire between the United States and Iran in the weekslong

The Israeli Prime Minister said he requested a delay in the release of his annual medical record, which was made public Friday, due to the Iran war.

For the first time in two decades, Palestinians in battle-scarred Gaza are voting in local elections Saturday. And in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, voters are casting ballots for the first time since the start of the Israel-Hamas war.

Palestinians have buried a pregnant woman and her two children killed in Israeli strikes in Gaza. At least 13 people died in the attacks on Friday, including two men in Gaza City and eight people

A US Army soldier, Gannon Ken Van Dyke, was charged with using classified information to bet on if then-Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro would be removed from office. Prosecutors say Van Dyke used Polymarket's prediction market and made more than $400,