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.

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.

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.

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.