A huge blast rocked a military base used by Iraq's Popular Mobilization Forces (PMF) to the south of Baghdad late on Friday, army sources told Reuters.

The United States designated four entities as proliferators of weapons of mass destruction and sanctioned them, according to Executive Order 13382, the US State Department announced Friday.These entities include three based in the People’s Republic of China and one in Belarus. They have supplied missile‐applicable items to Pakistan’s ballistic missile programs, including its long-range missile program.The entities that were noted include Minsk Wheel Tractor Plant, Xi’an Longde Technology Development Company Limited, Tianjin Creative Source International Trade Co Ltd, and Granpect Co. Ltd.They have engaged in activities or transactions that have materially contributed to, or pose a risk of materially contributing to, the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction or their means of delivery, including any efforts to manufacture, acquire, possess, develop, transport, transfer or use such items, by Pakistan.

The US Senate has reached an agreement, and will vote later on Friday, to approve the reauthorization of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, which governs the collection of electronic surveillance, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer said.

The Israel Air Force attacked several terrorist strongholds in the city of Rafah in the Gaza Strip Saturday overnight.Six people were killed during the activity, Walla reported, citing Palestinian reports.

Gunfire broke out at a park in Greenbelt, Maryland, where hundreds of high school students had gathered while skipping school on Friday, wounding five males aged 16 to 18, police said.One victim was in critical condition and the others were in stable condition, Greenbelt Police Chief Richard Bowers told a press conference.Police were searching for one suspect but there may be others, Bowers said. No motive had been established."There's absolutely no reason that this occurred. It is senseless, it is chronic in our society, and we have to do something to stop it," Bowers said. "It's maddening, honestly."There have been 120 such mass shootings in the United States in the first 110 days of this year, when defined as an incident with four or more people shot or killed, not including the shooter, according to the Gun Violence Archive.

Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian said on Friday that Iran will respond at an immediate and "maximum level" if Israel acts against its interests."If Israel wants to do another adventurism and acts against the interests of Iran, our next response will be immediate and will be at the maximum level," Amirabdollahian said, speaking through a translator, in an interview with NBC News.His comments follow reports of an Israeli strike on Iran on Friday.