A Palestinian man opened fire at an Israeli checkpoint in the occupied West Bank on Saturday, wounding a security guard before he was shot dead by forces at the scene, Israel's police said. The Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigade claimed the gunman as a member. Official Palestinian news agency WAFA identified him as an 18-year-old from Kafr Aqab. Police distributed a photo of an M-16 rifle they said was used by the gunman to carry out the shooting.
French President Emmanuel Macron’s special envoy, Jean-Yves Le Drian, brought back to Paris the outcomes of his meetings with officials and representatives of parliamentary blocs in Lebanon. During his visit, Le Drian listened to concerns and viewpoints from various individuals, including presidential candidates. The envoy, however, did not announce a plan to end the presidential vacuum.
Lebanon’s Internal Security Forces (ISF) announced dismantling the “most dangerous drug trafficking network” within the Mount Lebanon governorate. The cell was distributing drugs to school and university students, and targeting the Lebanese youth in the southern suburbs of Beirut.
A drone attack targeted Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's ancestral town of Qardaha on Friday with two projectiles, killing one person and lightly injuring another, Syrian state news agency Sana reported. The strike came a day after Sana reported a drone attack on Salhab, another opposition-held town in northwest Syria, that killed a woman and a child. The strikes on Qardaha and Salhab, which are around 35 kilometers apart, come amid a flare up in fighting in the northwest with shelling between Syrian government forces and opposition fighters on some front lines.