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At least 60 people were killed, including 25 Shi’ite fighters, and dozens wounded on Sunday by a car bomb and two suicide bombers in a district of Damascus where Syria’s holiest Shi’ite shrine is located, a monitor said.
Sunni fundamentalist Islamic State claimed responsibility for the attacks, according to Amaq, a news agency that supports the group. It said two operations “hit the most important stronghold of Shi’ite militias in Damascus”.
Seventeen members of the Takfiri Daesh terrorist group have been killed in an operation by the Iraqi air force in the country’s beleaguered western province of Anbar.
A security source, requesting not to be named, said the Daesh terrorists were killed as Iraqi military aircraft launched precision strikes against a number of militant hideouts northeast of the city of Khan al-Baghdadi, situated about 180 kilometers (110 miles) northwest of the capital, Baghdad, on Saturday, Arabic-language al-Sumaria satellite television network reported.
Fighting raged across Taez province on Friday, a day after Yemeni pro-government soldiers and resistance fighters launched a major offensive to drive out tens of thousands of Houthi rebels and allied fighters.
Resistance leader Hamoud Al Mikhlafi, who is leading the offensive, told The National that the first aim of the campaign was to break the rebels’ siege on parts of Taez city, the provincial capital.
Iraqi security forces uncovered more than a dozen corpses in Iraq Monday, just a month after the Iraqi military retook the city of Ramadi from the Islamic State group, also known as ISIS.
“ISIS launched an assault against (an Iraqi army building) with 10 vehicles rigged with explosives in the area of Sarsar, northern Ramadi”, said Brig Gen. Ismail Mahlawi, commander of the Anbar operations command.
The Syrian army has captured a key southern town from rebel forces after weeks of fierce fighting, a Syrian activist group says.
The fall of Sheikh Maskin on Monday means government forces will strengthen their hold on Deraa province, while cutting off rebel factions from key supply lines.