Iran’s supreme leader on Friday praised the country’s recent missile strike on Israel and said it was ready to do it again if necessary, state TV reported.

The CEO of Israel Aerospace Industries declined to give interception rates and the overall cost of Tuesday’s defense operation. But, he said, the price tag is “incomparable” with the damage Iran’s missiles would’ve caused had they gone unchallenged.

Extra Iranian barrels have been able to enter the market — helping to moderate world crude prices — with the tacit approval of US President Joe Biden’s administration. The current military escalation threatens these supplies.

The United States helped Israel shoot down Iranian missile attacks in recent days while shooting down Ukraine’s request to do the same against Russian missiles.

One year after the Oct. 7 attack on southern Israel by Hamas militants, survivors reflect on that day’s lingering toll. 

FIFA has stopped short of suspending the Israeli soccer federation on Thursday, but the world soccer body did ask for a disciplinary investigation of possible discrimination alleged by Palestinian soccer officials.

The Israeli military on Thursday warned people to evacuate communities in southern Lebanon that are outside a U.N.-declared buffer zone, signaling that it may widen a ground operation launched earlier this week against the Hezbollah militant group.

President Joe Biden said Wednesday he will not support an Israeli strike on sites related to Tehran’s nuclear program in response to Iran’s missile attack on Israel.

Four Iraqi troops were killed Wednesday and several wounded in an ambush by the extremist Islamic State group, Iraq’s Interior Ministry said.

Pentagon spokesman Maj. Gen. Pat Ryder said USS Bulkeley and USS Cole joined Israeli air defense units in firing about a dozen interceptors at inbound Iranian missiles.

When Israel bombed buildings outside the southern Lebanese city of Sidon, Mohamed Arkadan and his team rushed to an emergency unlike anything they had ever seen. But the economic crisis has left the crews unequpped. “We have zero capabilities, zero logistics,” Arkadan said.

Israel pressed forward on two fronts Wednesday, pursuing a ground incursion into Lebanon against Hezbollah that left eight Israeli soldiers dead and conducting strikes in Gaza that killed dozens, including children. As Israel vowed to retaliate for Iran’s ballistic missile attack a day earlier, the region braced for further escalation.

As Israel pummels southern Lebanon with airstrikes, tens of thousands of residents are fleeing their homes in fear. But one resident is staying. His mission is to care for the dogs and other animals left behind.

The USS Bulkeley and USS Cole joined Israeli air defense units in firing about a dozen interceptors to shoot down inbound Iranian missiles.

The attacks Tuesday are the rebels’ first assaults on commercial shipping in weeks. The Houthis also threatened “escalating military operations” targeting Israel on Monday after they apparently shot down a U.S. military drone flying over Yemen.

A U.S. base in eastern Syria recently was struck by rocket fire, in what appeared to be the latest militant attack on American forces in the country since the Israel-Hamas war erupted nearly a year ago.

The sanctions come as violence against Palestinians in the West Bank has exploded since the start of the Israel-Hamas war.

Iran launched at least 180 missiles into Israel on Tuesday, the latest in a series of escalating attacks in a years-long conflict between Israel and Iran and its Arab allies that threatens to push the Middle East closer toward a regionwide war.

The Israeli military on Tuesday warned people to evacuate nearly two dozen Lebanese border communities hours after announcing what it said were limited ground operations against Hezbollah.