The German military will establish a new division tasked exclusively with territorial defense, the army said on Saturday, bringing all existing reserve units under direct army command.The reorganization will take effect in April and raise the number of German divisions - units of some 20,000 troops - to four without increasing the total number of around 180,000 soldiers in the German forces."The territorial defense will be put under army command from April 1, 2025," an army spokesperson said, confirming a report by German news agency dpa.The German move will streamline command structures in territorial defense at a time when what Berlin describes as acts of Russian sabotage against the country's critical infrastructure have reached a new high. Russia denies the accusations.

US President Joe Biden spoke with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Friday to discuss continued support in the country's war with Russia, the White House said.

Russia launched 74 drones at Ukraine overnight, Kyiv's air force said in a statement early on Saturday, adding it had downed 47 of them, while 27 others disappeared from radars without reaching their targets.The air force said buildings and vehicles in seven different regions had been damaged by falling debris from downed drones, but that there had been no casualties.

The IDF has allegedly struck buildings in the Ayta ash Shab area in southern Lebanon, Israeli media reported on Saturday, citing Lebanese news sources.This is a developing story.

Defense attorneys for Ari Rosenfeld said on Saturday evening that the Shin Bet submitted an opinion stating that the level of danger associated with Rosenfeld has decreased.Rosenfeld's attorneys also said that the prosecutor's office has accepted this position but that they are also demanding the IDF's opinion on the matter. Rosenfeld's lawyers opposed this and demanded his immediate release.Rosenfeld was named as the non-commissioned officer involved in the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO) leaked document affair, court documents revealed in December.Reports from KAN News suggested that the classified information was selectively leaked to shape Israeli public perception regarding hostage negotiations with Hamas.

The IRGC claimed on Friday that they disbanded a spy ring orchestrated by a Persian Gulf state, Iran state media site Mehr News Agency reported on Saturday.

Dozens of people were killed in an air strike by Myanmar's military government in the western state of Rakhine this week, the United Nations said, as the Southeast Asia nation's civil war nears its fourth year.The civilian shadow government and the Arakan Army, an ethnic militia based in Rakhine fighting for the autonomy of the region, also reported the attack had killed dozens.The junta hit Kyauk Ni Maw village of Yanbye township on Wednesday afternoon, destroying around 500 homes and killing more than 40 people, according to the National Unity Government and a UN statement released late on Friday.Reuters could not immediately verify the reports. A spokesperson for the military did not answer phone calls seeking comment. The junta rejects accusations of committing atrocities against civilians, saying it is combating "terrorists."

Levi Yitzchak Pilant and Issachar Manne filed a federal lawsuit against the Biden administration on Thursday, alleging the sanctions placed on American-Israelis living in the West Bank violate the constitutional rights to due process and equal protection under the law, according to multiple media reports on Friday.The suit alleges the financial sanctions, under EO 14115, have only been applied to Jews in the West Bank. The legal team also argued that the administration's decision to apply the sanctions was based exclusively on evidence provided by anti-Israel groups, and in many cases, they could be demonstrably proven false.Attorneys with the National Jewish Advocacy Center, Jerusalem-based law firm Zell, Aron & Co., and Marcus & Marcus in Pennsylvania filed the suit in the US District Court of Columbia."When you apply a double standard to sanction only Jewish people, and when you punish Jews for the simple act of being Jewish in a place where you do not want them to be, there is a word for that, and it is not pretty," NJAC CEO Mark Goldfeder told Fox News.