Syrian state-run media has reported an overnight Israeli strike on the coastal city of Latakia. It says the strike injured two civilians and caused "material damage" to properties in near the city's south-eastern entrance. The UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights says the Israeli raid targeted a weapons depot in the city.

The mayor of Nabatieh was killed, according to Lebanese state media, in an air raid that Israel said was targeting Hezbollah.

Israel stepped up air strikes on Lebanon and said a senior Hezbollah commander in the south of the country had been killed, the latest escalation of its conflict with the Iran-backed militant group. Bloomberg News' Dana Khraiche discusses with Joumanna Bercetche on & Africa.

The commander of Iran's elite Revolutionary Guards warned Israel on Thursday against attacking the Islamic Republic in retaliation for a missile barrage as its arch-foe stepped up its offensive in Lebanon against Tehran-backed Hezbollah.

Israel reportedly has decided on which possible targets it could strike in Iran in response to an Oct. 1 barrage of missiles that Tehran fired at Israel.

Iran's Revolutionary Guards chief Hossein Salami warned Thursday of further retaliation against Israel if it attacks Iranian targets, which Israel has vowed to do after Iran's missile attack on. Iran has said its missile barrage,