Kurdish Peshmerga forces succeeded in regaining control of 11 villages southeast of Mosul and killed at least 120 militants of so-called Islamic State (IS), part of operations to drive IS out of Mosul and other areas in northern Iraq. More than 120 IS terrorists were killed in the Peshmerga offensive today, Mansour Barzani, commander of Kurdish special forces, said in statements to the press.

The offensive, supervised by president of Iraq’s Kurdistan region Masoud Barzani, would continue as long as IS was there, he said.

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Saudi-led coalition jets on Thursday pounded Shiite rebel positions in and around Sanaa for a third consecutive day, as shelling from Yemen killed a woman in Saudi Arabia.

The coalition has been fighting the Houthi rebels since March 2015, after they overran the capital and drove south forcing internationally recognised President Abedrabbo Mansour Hadi to flee the country.

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Syria Democratic Forces, with air support from the US-led coalition, have taken near complete control of Manbij, the group announced. Islamic State fighters had held the northern Syrian city near the Turkish border since 2014.

The US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), a coalition of Kurdish and Arab fighters, had fought since June to drive Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS/ISIL) out of Manbij, a key city on the supply route behind the jihadist group stronghold of Raqqa and the Turkish border.

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Members of anti-regime opposition forces group, Jaish al-Fatah, take security measures on Saturday after seizing control of an artillery school in Aleppo

Syrian rebels claimed on Saturday they have broken a three-week government siege of the city of Aleppo after more than 500 rebels and 130 civilians had been killed in fighting since Sunday.

But state television said late in the day the army had regained control of several key points in a military complex south of Aleppo that rebels overran earlier.

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An alliance of Kurdish and Arab forces has reportedly managed to retake the strategic northern Syrian city of Manbij from Takfiri Daesh terrorists.

The so-called Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported that the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) managed to take “almost complete control” of the area, located 446 kilometers (277 miles) north of the Syrian capital, Damascus, on Saturday.

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