Bombings rocked three cities across Saudi Arabia on Monday, including near the Prophet’s Mosque in the holy city of Medina, raising the specter of increasingly coordinated attacks by militants seeking to destabilize the monarchy.

A suicide bomber struck near the United States Consulate in the coastal city of Jidda in the morning, wounding two security officers. Then, near dusk, when Muslims were ending their daily Ramadan fasts, other blasts struck near a Shiite mosque in the country’s east and at a security post in Medina, killing four guards, according to the Saudi-owned Al Arabiya television network.

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At least 83 people died in a bomb attack on a busy shopping street in the Iraqi capital in the early hours of Sunday morning, as Islamic State militants target civilians as they lose ground on the battlefield.

A further 137 were injured in the bombing and the ensuing fire in Baghdad’s Karada neighborhood, according to a health official who declined to be named because he was not authorized to speak to the media. The Islamic State claimed responsibility for the attack, saying it had targeted Shiite Muslims.

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Daesh retook the Hamdan small airport near the Iraq border a day after it was seized by Syrian rebels backed by the United States.

The air base is near the city of al-Bukamal, where Daesh took control in 2014. The city is one of the main transit points used between Syria and Iraq by Daesh.

Rebel fighters recently began taking territory surrounding al-Bukamal, including militant-held positions.

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At least 70 regime and rebel fighters have been killed in 24 hours in a government assault and a jihadist-led counterattack in northern Syria, a monitor said Thursday.

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said 30 regime soldiers and 39 rebel fighters had been killed in battles around Al-Maleh, north of Aleppo, since Wednesday afternoon.

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The US led coalition which is stepping up their crackdown on ISIS in Iraq have reportedly dealt a massive blow to the dreaded terror outfit.

The coalition air strikes around the city of Fallujah, one of the places where a fierce battle is taking place, have left around 250 ISIS fighters dead, Reuters news agency quoting US officials reported.

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