The IDF identified that approximately five projectiles were fired from the northern Gaza Strip into Israel on Sunday afternoon, the military said shortly after the incident.It added that two projectiles were intercepted, and the rest likely hit open areas. There have been no reports of any casualties or wounded from the incident. This is a developing story.

Mikheil Kavelashvili, a hardline critic of the West, took the oath of office as Georgia's president on Sunday amid a political crisis in the South Caucasus country, whose government has frozen European Union application talks, provoking major protests.

One tourist was killed and another was injured in a shark attack in Egypt's Marsa Alam resort, according to a statement from the environment ministry on Sunday.The nationalities of the tourists were not disclosed.

The newly appointed head of intelligence services in Syria said the country's security institution will be restructured after all current security entities are dissolved, the state news agency reported on Saturday.

A suicide bomber killed the head of police intelligence in Iran's southern port city of Bandar Lengeh on Saturday, Iranian state media reported.The unidentified bomber was also killed, and another police officer was injured in the attack outside a police headquarters in the Gulf port city, the media reports said.The attack came days ahead of the anniversary of two suicide bombings on January 3 in which nearly 100 people were killed at a memorial in southeastern Iran for top commander Qassem Soleimani, who was assassinated in Iraq in 2020 by a US drone. Islamic State claimed those two suicide bombings.