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The Syrian army has recaptured a key town and airbase in the Damascus countryside, leaving rebel groups in the Eastern Ghouta region vulnerable to further attacks by government forces.
The Marj as-Sultan airport was reportedly taken by the Syrian Arab Army (SAA) and Assad-loyalist National Defence Forces (NDF) on Monday morning, after remaining under rebel control for three years.
Islamic State militants have reportedly launched several counter-attacks in the Iraqi city of Ramadi, which government forces are trying to recapture.
A security source told the BBC that at least 35 soldiers and allied Sunni tribesmen were killed in a series of suicide car bomb attacks.
The Air Force struck two Hamas infrastructure targets in Gaza overnight in reaction to rocket fire from coastal enclave on Sunday night.
The Air Force struck a Hamas maritime police base in northern Gaza, and an armed wing base in the strip’s center in reaction to the rocket fire, no casualties were reported.
Islamic State militants have claimed responsibility for attacks on the Syrian city of Homs which killed at least 16 people and injured dozens more. The militants said their fighter blew himself up with 150kg of explosives near a central city hospital.
The incident happened near a hospital in the al-Zahra neighborhood of the city. The area has seen several bombings. It is home to the Alawite minority, to whom the ruling elite in Syria belongs.
Iraqi security forces on Tuesday recaptured a large district in western the city of Ramadi, seized earlier by the Islamic State (IS) militant group, while a total of 39 people were killed in fierce clashes and air strikes against the extremist militants in and near Ramadi in Iraq’s western province of Anbar, a provincial security source said.
Iraqi security forces and allied Sunni paramilitary tribal fighters stormed al-Ta’mim district in the western part of Anbar’s provincial capital city of Ramadi, some 110 km west of Baghdad, after heavy house-to-house clashes, the source told Xinhua on condition of anonymity.