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Bloody clashes between Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) and opposition forces rocked the tense areas of Kurdistan and Baluchistan on Monday.
In remarks to Asharq Al-Awsat newspaper, sources close to the opposition rejected all information provided by state media outlets on the ongoing clashes, adding that they would soon reveal the truth behind bloody developments in the Iranian cities of Sardasht in Kurdistan and Khash in Baluchistan.
Air strikes carried out by Syrian or Russian warplanes killed more than 20 people in the northwestern city of Idlib on Sunday, monitoring group the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported.
Areas hit included a market, and at least five children were among those killed, the British-based Observatory said. It said the death toll was expected to rise because of the number of people seriously wounded.
Iraqi forces managed to recapture a neighborhood in southern Fallujah from Daesh (ISIL or ISIS) terrorist group in a massive operation, killing 42 militants, the commander of Fallujah Operation announced.
Iraq’s army troops, police and anti-terrorism forces retook al-Shuhada neighborhood, south of Fallujah, from Daesh terrorists, Major General Abdul al-Wahab al-Saadi was quoted as saying by Arabic-language Alsumariya TV network.
An alliance of Syrian Kurdish and Arab forces has managed to cut off the Daesh terror group’s main supply route to Turkey after encircling the Syrian border town of Manbij.
The Syrian Democrati Forces (SDF), a coalition of Kurdish, Arab, Assyrian, Armenian, and Turkmen fighters, backed by the People’s Protection Units (YPG), surrounded Manbij on Friday, said the so-called Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.
The Hamas terror group said in a statement early Thursday that the two gunmen who shot up a Tel Aviv cafe on Wednesday night were members of the organization.
At least four people were killed in the terror attack Wednesday night at the Sarona Market shopping complex, and another 16 were injured, including three in serious condition. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowed “decisive action” to track down those responsible for the third deadly attack in the city this year.