The Times of Israel is liveblogging Wedenesday’s events as they happen.

President Donald Trump says he is withdrawing National Guard troops from Chicago, Los Angeles and Portland, following a series of legal setbacks over his military deployments in US cities.

The Republican president sent troops into the three cities run by Democrats for what he said was a crackdown on illegal immigration and crime in the first year of his second term in the White House.

Local leaders slammed the moves as authoritarian overreach and launched a string of legal challenges, with the US Supreme Court last week blocking the Chicago deployment.

“We are removing the National Guard from Chicago, Los Angeles, and Portland, despite the fact that CRIME has been greatly reduced by having these great Patriots in those cities, and ONLY by that fact,” Trump says on his Truth Social network.

Trump says the three cities “were GONE if it weren’t for the Federal Government stepping in.”

“We will come back, perhaps in a much different and stronger form, when crime begins to soar again – Only a question of time!” Trump adds.

A suicide bomber targeted a police patrol in Aleppo, killing one person and wounding two members of the security forces, a Syrian government spokesperson says.

“The person who detonated an explosive belt within the patrol in Aleppo is believed to have an ideological or organizational background linked to Islamic State,” Interior Ministry spokesperson Nour al-Din al-Baba tells state-owned news agency Al Ekhbariya, adding that investigations were ongoing to determine the attacker’s identity.

The attacker detonated himself while being searched by the patrol after arousing suspicion, Ekhbariya TV reports, citing a security source.

No group has claimed responsibility for the attack.

Earlier this month, two US Army soldiers and a civilian interpreter were killed in Syria by a suspected Islamic State attacker who targeted a convoy of American and Syrian forces before being shot dead.

Palestinian Authority security forces helped extract a 22-year-old Jewish Israeli woman who was seen wandering in the Palestinian city of Jericho in the West Bank, a spokesman for the Defense Ministry’s Civil Administration tells The Times of Israel.

The Civil Administration reached out to Ramallah upon receiving a report that the woman was stranded in Jericho and the PA forces helped locate her and hand her over to Israeli forces who then transferred her to the police for questioning.

A preliminary inquiry found that she had mistakenly “taken a wrong turn” into Jericho, the Civil Administration says, using the opportunity to remind Israelis that entry into the West Bank’s Area A is illegal.

PA forces have assisted in these extractions several times in the past month.

Speaking at The Shul of Bal........

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