Mariupol's residents have lacked food, water and electricity since Russian forces surrounded the city.
The Biden administration is ordering new sanctions against Russian oligarchs and others in President Vladimir Putin’s inner circle.
The operation came as ISIS has been trying for a resurgence, with a series of attacks in the region.
An Israeli and an Egyptian official say a helicopter belonging to an international peacekeeping force has crashed in Egypt's Sinai Peninsula.
Al-Shabab extremists have overrun a key military base used by U.S. counterterror forces in Kenya, destroying several U.S. aircraft and vehicles.
President Donald Trump has approved the deployment of US forces to Saudi Arabia, UAE after attack on oil facilities.
A spokesman for the U.S.-backed Syrian forces fighting the Islamic State group says they've made "limited advances" in the latest push on the last remaining area held by the extremists in Syria.
The Pentagon has identified three of the four Americans killed in a suicide bomb attack claimed by the Islamic State group in Syria this week.
An Afghan official says that at least 30 civilians have been killed, along with 16 Taliban fighters, as government forces battled the insurgents in Helmand province overnight.
It is only the second such incident along the border in 30 years.