Rescue teams are searching through rubble in a town near the city of Baalbek in eastern Lebanon where an Israeli strike hit a civil defense center the night before, killing at least 13.

Israeli strikes killed at least 11 people across southern Lebanon, including a mother, father and their three kids in a home.

Lebanon’s caretaker prime minister, Najib Mikati, asked Iran to help secure a cease-fire in the war between Israel and Hezbollah.

Iran’s presidential election Friday will determine who will lead the country’s civilian government.

Iran has named the hard-line cleric running its judiciary and six others as approved candidates in its June 18 presidential election.

Iran’s judiciary chief and a prominent hard-line cleric has registered to run in the country's June presidential election.

Iran has opened registration for potential candidates in the country's June presidential election.

In this Monday, March 2, 2020 photo, Israel's Health Minister Yaakov Litzman delivers a statement as he visits a makeshift tent for quarantined coronavirus voters in Tel Aviv, Israel. As Israel's case count rose to over 6,800, including 34 deaths, the country was rattled by the diagnosis of its health minister, who has had frequent contact with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. The Middle East has confirmed over 82,000 cases of the virus and over 3,600 deaths, most of them in Iran. Iran’s Health Ministry said Thursday that the new coronavirus killed another 124 people, pushing the country's death toll to 3,160. Israeli Health Minister Yaakov Litzman and his wife, who also caught the virus, are members of Israel's insular ultra-Orthodox community, which has been particularly hard-hit.