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As the war enters its 698th day, these are the main developments.

TEHRAN: An Iranian soldier opened fire on fellow soldiers Sunday, killing five of them in the southeastern city of Kerman, where 94 people were killed in a bombing attack earlier this month, Iranian state TV reported. State TV said the shooting happened when the soldier arrived at a barracks dormitory and opened fire on the resting soldiers. It said the motive wasn't immediately clear and the suspect, who wasn't identified, was at large. No other details were released.

DeSantis struggled to connect with voters on a personal level and lost heavily in the Iowa caucuses.

The Palestinian group provides its account of the assault on communities in southern Israel.

BAGHDAD: The US ambassador to Iraq met Sunday with former prime minister Nuri Al-Maliki, the Iraqi politician’s office said, a day after pro-Iran militants struck US forces in the country. The meeting in Baghdad with Ambassador Alina Romanowski comes amid soaring regional tensions, the fallout from more than three months of war between US ally Israel and Hamas, supported by Tehran.

Hundreds of people from Gaza have been treated in a French field hospital aboard a ship off the coast of Egypt.

Authorities in Russian-controlled Donetsk accuse Ukraine of shelling the market.