Israel and the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah traded heavy fire early Sunday but backed off from sparking a widely feared all-out war, as both sides signaled their most intense exchange in months was over.

As Iran continues to weigh its options to retaliate for the killing of Hamas political chief Ismail Haniyeh late last month in Tehran, an intense debate has emerged within the highest circles of the Islamic Republic as to how to strike back at Israel without further inflaming the regional crisis surrounding the ongoing war in the Gaza Strip.

Israel struck Hezbollah targets in south Lebanon in retaliation after strikes in the Israeli-occupied region of Golan Heights killed 12 children.

Former President Donald Trump spoke with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Friday for the first time since Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, and unlike their last controversial phone call, both sides claimed to be satisfied with how the conversation went.

There is a reason that the crisis at our southern border was perhaps the hottest topic in the recent presidential debate–as former President Donald Trump repeatedly noted, the border crisis touches on every other major issue, including the economy, crime, health care, the federal debt, and most especially national security.