Turkey, Russia Hold Joint Patrol in Northeast Syria

Turkish officers talk with Russian officers near Turkish-Syrian border. (AP)
Turkish officers talk with Russian officers near Turkish-Syrian border. (AP)
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Turkey, Russia Hold Joint Patrol in Northeast Syria

Turkish officers talk with Russian officers near Turkish-Syrian border. (AP)
Turkish officers talk with Russian officers near Turkish-Syrian border. (AP)

Russian Military Police held on Monday a joint patrol with Turkish forces in Syria's Ain al-Arab (Kobani).

The patrol was the 95th between the two forces in the region since both countries signed a ceasefire agreement in 2019.

It comprised eight Russian and Turkish military vehicles, accompanied by two Russian helicopters, and set off from Gharib village, east of Kobani.

The patrol toured the villages of Qarah Mogh, Jaishan, Kharabisan Tahtani and Baghdik to Khan village in the western countryside of Tel Abyad then returned to their set off position.

Separately, the Turkish Defense Ministry announced the killing of two members of the Syrian Democratic Forces in the Euphrates Shield zone, under the control of Turkey and its loyal factions.

Turkey has recently targeted the Kurdish-led SDF sites in north and northeastern Syria by intensifying its artillery bombardment in Ain Issa, north of Raqqa, and in other sites in Hasakeh, extending to the countryside of Aleppo.

Meanwhile, Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) activists documented the death of two SDF members and the injury of three others by a landmine explosion targeting their car while passing through Hisha town, north of Raqqah, on Sunday evening.

SOHR has reported 56 operations carried out by ISIS, including armed attacks and explosions, in areas under the control of the Autonomous Administration since early 2022.

According to the war monitor, the regime security services have arrested three new members of the “National Defense Forces” from al-Sokhnah town in the eastern countryside of Homs for “communicating with ISIS cells.”



French High School Student is Arrested after Fatally Stabbing Another Student, Wounding 3

A Police Municipal officer surrounds the scene of a crime with a Police tape as French military of the Sentinelle Operation stand at the high school Notre-Dame de Toutes-Aides after a knife attack in Nantes, western France, on April 24, 2025.  (Photo by Loic VENANCE / AFP)
A Police Municipal officer surrounds the scene of a crime with a Police tape as French military of the Sentinelle Operation stand at the high school Notre-Dame de Toutes-Aides after a knife attack in Nantes, western France, on April 24, 2025. (Photo by Loic VENANCE / AFP)
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French High School Student is Arrested after Fatally Stabbing Another Student, Wounding 3

A Police Municipal officer surrounds the scene of a crime with a Police tape as French military of the Sentinelle Operation stand at the high school Notre-Dame de Toutes-Aides after a knife attack in Nantes, western France, on April 24, 2025.  (Photo by Loic VENANCE / AFP)
A Police Municipal officer surrounds the scene of a crime with a Police tape as French military of the Sentinelle Operation stand at the high school Notre-Dame de Toutes-Aides after a knife attack in Nantes, western France, on April 24, 2025. (Photo by Loic VENANCE / AFP)

A student at a French high school stabbed four other students at his school Thursday, killing at least one and injuring three others before being arrested, police said.
The circumstances of the attack were not immediately clear. Fatal attacks are quite rare in French schools.
A national police official said the attack occurred at the private Catholic Notre-Dame-de-Toutes-Aides High School in Nantes on France’s Atlantic coast.
The student stabbed four people with a knife during a lunch break before teachers subdued him, and he was later taken in by police, The Associated Press quoted the official as saying. The official was not authorized to be publicly named according to national police policy.
Students at the school told French media at the scene that they had received an email from the assailant earlier in the day with unspecified grievances.
Education Minister Elisabeth Borne said on X that she is heading to the school with Interior Minister Bruno Retailleau to show “solidarity with victims and the school community.″ The regional prosecutor announced a news conference for later Thursday.
Images from the scene showed police and armed military forces surrounding the school as the investigation got underway.
An official at the school, which is part of a complex housing a primary and middle school, would not comment on what happened, saying the school is concentrating on caring for the students who were on campus at the time.