Russia and Syria will hold further talks regarding Russian military bases in Syria, Russia's news agencies reported late on Tuesday, citing Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Mikhail Bogdanov as telling journalists after his talks with Syrian officials."This issue requires additional negotiations," TASS news agency cited Bogdanov as saying. Bogdanov is heading Russia's delegation to Damascus for the first time since Moscow's ally President Bashar al-Assad was toppled.He added that so far there have been no changes to the presence of Russian military bases in the country.

The home of the terrorist who killed Stf.-Sgt. (res.) Elchanan Ariel Klein and injured four Border Police officers, was demolished during a joint counterterrorism operation on Tuesday night in Shuweika with the Shin Bet, and Border Police, the IDF said in a statement on Wednesday.The terrorist was part of the terror cell that committed the terror attack on November 2, 2023.

IDF forces identified and thwarted a smuggling attempt from Egypt into Israel overnight on Tuesday, the IDF said in a statement on Wednesday.A drone was spotted and shot down by the IDF, which found that the drone was carrying 13 weapons and ammunition.The confiscated the weapons and transferred them to security forces to handle.

Egypt will not participate in the displacement of Palestinians, which would be an "act of injustice," President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi said on Wednesday, after US President Donald Trump said Egypt and Jordan should take in residents of the Gaza Strip.According to a statement by the president's office on Wednesday, Sisi said Egypt would work with Trump to reach peace between Israel and Palestinians based on a two-state solution.

Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan met with Hamas leader Muhammad Ismail Darwish in Ankara on Wednesday, Erdogan's office said in a statement.Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan and Intelligence Chief Ibrahim Kalin also attended the meeting, as well as other Hamas officials.

US prosecutors on Wednesday moved to end the criminal case against two associates of President Donald Trump for allegedly helping to obstruct a probe into Trump's mishandling of classified documents, a court filing showed.The pair, Trump personal valet Walt Nauta and property manager Carlos De Oliveira, did not object to prosecutor's decision, according to the filing.The move marks the end of the two prosecutions of Trump by Special Counsel Jack Smith, who resigned from the Justice Department earlier this month ahead of Trump's return to the presidency.