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Turkey’s military targeted a headquarters of the Kurdish People’s Protection Units (YPG) near the city of Tel Abyad in northern Syria.
“The Turkish artillery bombed the YPG-held village of Khenitiya in Tel Abyad countryside, targeting a YPG security office,” YPG officer Salih Watti told ARA News. The attack, which took place in the afternoon on Wednesday, only caused material damage. No casualties were reported.
Iraqi government forces have launched an offensive in the beleaguered western province of Anbar, and managed to liberate a region there from the grip of the Takfiri Daesh terrorist group.
Major General Ismail al-Mahlawi, the head of the Anbar Operations Command, told Arabic-language al-Sumaria television network on Tuesday that Iraqi forces established full control over Jazirah Hit region, which lies north of the city of Hit and about 140 kilometers (85 miles) west of the capital Baghdad, after Daesh members did not resist and fled away from the area.
A Saudi-led coalition airstrike hit a funeral hall packed with thousands of mourners in Yemen’s capital Saturday, killing over 140 people and wounding more than 525 in one of the deadliest single attacks of the country’s civil war, a U.N. official said.
Saudi Arabia announced early Sunday it would launch an investigation into “reports about the regrettable and painful bombing” in Sanaa, without immediately acknowledging that its coalition battling rebels in Yemen is the only force with air power in the conflict.
Fighters of the Syrian Islamist rebel group Jabhat Fateh al-Sham cheer on a pickup truck after a Russian helicopter was shot down in the north of Syria’s rebel-held Idlib province, Syria, August 1, 2016. REUTERS/Ammar Abdullah/File Photo
Syrian opposition activists are reporting intense clashes in the northwestern province of Idlib between two of Syria’s most powerful insurgent groups.
Seven fighters were killed in clashes between rebels and loyalists in southwest Yemen today, a loyalist officer said.
Four rebels and three pro-government fighters died on the edge of Taez and Lahj provinces in fighting for control of an area overlooking the strategic Bab al-Mandab strait, the officer said.