Today’s top stories:
1) The Jerusalem government has approved a hostage release deal with Hamas – in exchange for a number of concessions.
2) Unidentified aircraft launched a strike on Hezbollah targets in the vicinity of Damascus – in an attack which Syria attributes to Israel.
3) The Baghdad Central Government has blatantly condemned the U.S. for retaliating against an Iranian-directed strike that wounded a number of U.S. servicemembers.