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Turkey has sent hundreds of newly recruited mercenaries to Sirte in Libya to fight alongside the forces of the Government of National Accord (GNA) against General Khalifa Haftar’s Libyan National Army (LNA), the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported.
Turkey sent 400 mercenaries to Libya last week, while about 250 others returned to Syria, bringing the total number of Syrian mercenaries sent to Libya to 16,500, the director of the Syrian Observatory, Rami Abdel Rahman, said.
Israel Defense Forces (IDF) Spokesman Brig. Gen. Hidai Zilberman said this afternoon that Israeli troops thwarted a Hezbollah attack near the border with Lebanon.
According to reports, a Hezbollah cell of three to five operatives crossed the Blue Line border a few meters into sovereign Israeli territory. The troops then opened fire at the group with machine guns and tank shells.
The Israeli military on Friday said its helicopters struck Syrian army targets in response to mortars fired toward the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights.
“A number of targets were struck, including SAF observation posts and intelligence collection systems located in SAF bases,” the military said in a statement, referring to the Syrian Armed Forces.
Airstrikes in Yemen’s northern al-Jawf province killed least seven civilians on Wednesday, according to residents and an official with the Houthi rebel group who put the death toll at nine.
A Houthi health ministry spokesman said the Saudi-led coalition struck a residential area in the al-Hazm district of al-Jawf province just days after a Sunday airstrike in the northwestern governorate of Hajjah.
Turkish security forces have arrested at least six YPG/PKK terrorists in northern Syria, across Turkey’s southern border, the National Defense Ministry said on Friday.
“Six other PKK/YPG terrorists, who were found to be carrying out terrorist activities to disrupt the environment of peace and security in Operation Olive Branch area, were detained,” the ministry said on Twitter.