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Israel struck a Syrian military position after a tank shell landed in an open area in the occupied Golan Heights. The IDF fired on a Syrian government position on Wednesday night after a tank shell landed in uninhabited Israeli territory during reported clashes between Syrian government and rebel forces. The shell casued no casualties. The IDF did not specify how it attacked the Syrian post, but Syrian media said that Israeli helicopters attacked the position. Press TV reports: Tel Aviv has targeted the region several times over the past few years.

Former president Barack Obama has been accused of aiding ISIS militants, according to a senior military figure who says that terrorists were tipped off about a top-secret raid in Yemen. Navy SEAL William Ryan Owen was killed during a recent raid in Yemen, and according to Captain Joseph John, Obama hired people in the Muslim Brotherhood to work in Washington in order to collect information about the raid and tip off militants in Yemen before it occurred.

A bulletproof glass wall is to be erected around the base of Eiffel Tower. The Paris municipality announced it is to set up a 2.5 mete high glass wall around the French capital’s iconic Eiffel Tower as part of a multi-million euro plan to help prevent terrorist attacks on the famous historic monument. “The terror threat remains high in Paris and the most vulnerable sites, led by the Eiffel Tower, must be the object of special security measures,” said deputy mayor Jean-Francois Martins, who is in charge of tourism at the Paris City Hall.

US State and Defense Departments have reportedly cautioned President Trump against designating the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) as a terrorist group. Trump administration officials told CNN that the White House was thinking about designating the IRGC, the elite arm of Iran’s security forces, as a “foreign terrorist organization“ However, Trump did not sign executive orders on the issue after US national security agencies warned him about the consequences of such a move.

A Russian airstrike accidentally killed three Turkish soldiers and wounded 11 others during an operation against the Islamic State in northern Syria on Thursday morning, Turkey's military said in a statement and Moscow confirmed.The head of the Russian General Staff, Valery Gerasimov, said the warplanes were targeting Islamic State sites in the al-Bab area.