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Israeli military’s chief said Wednesday that Israel “has carried out actions” in Iraq to foil convoys of weapons that could be used against Israel.
Aviv Kohavi made the rare acknowledgment during a speech in a conference in the Interdisciplinary Center Herzliya, a private research college outside Tel Aviv.
A woman and a child were among eight people killed in a car bomb attack in a Turkish-held border town in northern Syria, the defence ministry said.
The car exploded on Monday in the village of Suluk about 20 kilometres (12 miles) southeast of the Syrian border town of Tal Abyad, the ministry said.
On December 23, the armed formations of the Russian Federation violated ceasefire eight times in the Joint Forces Operation (JFO) area in Donbas.
“The enemy used 82mm mortars banned under the Minsk agreements, grenade launchers of different systems, heavy machine guns and other small arms to shell positions of the Joint Forces,” the press center of the JFO Headquarters reports.
Around 30 fighters from the ISWAP group took control of the highway near Gasarwa village, 100 kilometres north of the Borno State capital, Maiduguri.
IS-aligned jihadists killed six people and abducted five others in northeast Nigeria on December 22, after blocking a major highway and singling out security officials, aid workers and Christians, witnesses said.
French forces have killed 33 militants in an operation in Mali, according to President Emmanuel Macron.
Mr Macron made the announcement on a visit to Ivory Coast, where he reiterated France’s commitment to fighting jihadists in the region.