BBC News, The Telegraph, The Associated Press, Reuters and The Times report that five Turkish soldiers and three civilians have been killed by Syrian army shelling in Syria’s opposition-held province of Idlib, Turkey says. Turkish Defence Minister Hulusi Akar said retaliatory fire “neutralised” 76 Syrian troops but Syrian state media reported no casualties, as military engagements continued.

The Financial Times reports that Turkey’s president Recep Tayyip Erdogan has vowed to make Syria “pay” for the death of eight Turkish military personnel in Idlib as he accused Russia of turning a blind eye to escalating violence in the province.

The Associated Press reports that Islamic State extremists are mounting increasingly bold attacks in Syria and Iraq following their loss of territory in both countries and are planning operations to free their fighters in detention facilities, UN experts have said.

BBC News reports that three leading members of an Iranian Arab opposition group have been arrested in Denmark and charged with spying for Saudi Arabia. The three, who live in Denmark, were long suspected of links to rebels who attacked an Iranian military parade in September 2018, killing 24 people. The Financial Times reports that the Danish security service has accused Saudi Arabia and Iran of dragging Scandinavian states into their longstanding conflict in the wake of a foiled assassination attempt in Denmark and allegations of spying.

The Associated Press reports that Iran’s president said on Monday that Tehran might reconsider providing UN inspectors with access to Iran’s nuclear facilities if the country were confronted with “a new situation,” the official IRNA news agency reported.

Reuters reports that military officers from rival factions in Libya’s conflict began UN-led talks in Geneva on Monday aimed at securing a ceasefire after 10 months of fighting on the outskirts of the capital, Tripoli.

The Times reports that Israel’s Holocaust memorial museum, Yad Vashem, has apologised for giving a world stage to President Putin’s “distorted” rewriting of the USSR’s role in the Second World War.

Reuters reports Israel and Sudan have agreed to move towards forging normal relations for the first time, after Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had two hours of talks with Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, head of Sudan’s sovereign council, in the city of Entebbe in central Uganda.

Reuters reports that thousands of Israeli Arabs, many waving Palestinian flags, demonstrated in Baqa al-Gharbiyye at the weekend to voice their fear that US President Donald Trump’s Middle East plan could see them stripped of their rights as Israeli citizens.

In The Independent, Borzou Daraghi argues that the latest clashes between Turkish and Syrian forces in Idlib demonstrate the limits of Russia’s balancing act in the Middle East, as Turkish strikes hammered 40 Assad regime positions and escalated the Syrian conflict.

In The Independent, Bel Trew writes that the Trump-Netanyahu peace plan unveiling couldn’t have been more perfectly timed given both leaders’ upcoming elections, as attention was firmly drawn away from respective impeachment and indictment proceedings.

All the Israeli media cover the latest campaign of the settler leadership to demand “sovereignty now” over the Jordan Valley and the settlement blocks in the West Bank.  They are focussing their pressure campaign on Prime Minister Netanyahu. According to Yediot Ahronot, “the settler leaders have come to realise in the last few days that the dream of annexation is beginning to fade, and intend to apply pressure to force the prime minister to put the matter to a vote before the elections in March. The Yesha (settlers) Council is planning to pitch a tent outside the Prime Minister’s Office today and to demand “sovereignty now.” Yesha Council officials said that the tent should not be viewed as a protest but as expressing support for Netanyahu, in addition to being a means of pressure on him to apply sovereignty.” In addition, yesterday about 100 students and farmers from the Jordan Valley held a “sovereignty march” to demand that sovereignty be applied before the elections. Maariv highlights a split in the settler leadership as the Mayor of Ariel, Eli Shviro announced that he has decided to quit the Yesha (settlers) Council because it was opposed to the Trump plan. “The Yesha Council is firmly opposed to the deal of the century, which will be very good for settlement, because it is afraid of a Palestinian state—it did not consult or make a joint decision with the chairpersons of the local authorities, who are members of its directorate…I feel that the council does not represent the views of many of the chairpersons in Judea and Samaria, my city, and me—and I therefore have announced that I was resigning from the directorate of the Yesha Council and my membership in the council.,”

Ynet reports that there were at least nine balloons carrying explosive devices launched from the Gaza strip into southern Israel yesterday. Two explosive devises caused significant traffic delays as one landed on a motorway and another on the trainline, both were defused by police. Another balloon carrying an explosive device detonated mid-air and another next to a residential home in Kfar Aza near the Gaza Strip border. According to security officials the devices sent over by balloons are becoming increasingly dangerous. “The explosives now include, reportedly, small iron balls and more explosive material and are intended to cause more injuries and damage. Many of the balloons are condoms that are more resilient and therefore more effective. Unlike the colourful balloons, condoms are harder to detect. Yesterday, Hamas announced it would begin to dispatch balloons carrying tear gas grenades that will detonate upon landing in Israeli territory. Haaretz reports that this is part of the latest Hamas tactic to pressure Israel into implementing the ceasefire understandings. The paper also notes that the Israeli military does not see the need for a wider Gaza operation at this stage.

The Jerusalem Post reports that ISIS affiliates in the Sinai have claimed responsibility for detonating a number of explosives next to a gas pipeline in the northern Sinai Peninsula on Sunday night. They aimed to disrupt the flow between Israel and Egypt, however Israeli authorities said gas supply between the countries remained unaffected. According to AFP the gas pipeline targeted was in fact a domestic supply line for a local power station.