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Comment: For Lebanon, the hard work of defining our future, and ensuring it is not co-opted by other forces starts now, writes Nizar Hassan.
The Houthis slammed the killing of Qasem Soleimani as a war crime, stating the only appropriate response to the assassination would be to expel the 'American occupier' from the region.
"The IDF will continue to operate in order to prevent any attempt to violate Israeli sovereignty," the army said.
An Israeli drone was shot down in southern Lebanon.
Qasem Soleimani's death has shocked the Middle East, but it might ultimately prove a more symbolic blow to Iran rather than a strategic one, writes Paul Iddon.
The explosion was reported by some outlets as US airstrikes on Iran-backed militants in Iraq, prompting US CENTCOM to quickly clear air on the matter.
Secretive, ideological and unflinchingly loyal to Iran, Iraqi paramilitary leader Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis was assassinated in a US strike alongside his close friend Qasem Soleimani.
Syrian Observatory head Rami Abdul Rahman said it was "likely" that Israel mounted the operation, which killed several Iraqi as well as Iranian fighters.
The strike in the desert near Mayadin came minutes after an Israeli attack was intercepted by Syrian air defences.
Israeli missiles targeting a research facility in northern Syria were intercepted, Syrian state media said, in the fourth such attack in two weeks.