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At least 30 Al Houthi militants were killed in air strikes in the last 24 hours in Taiz as coalition forces carried out at least 20 air strikes.
The most recent air strikes on Wednesday targeted militants positioned near Taiz University. Six Al Houthi military vehicles that were carrying reinforcements were also bombed.
Locals said the two Israeli airstrikes hit a military facility operated by Hamas and caused damage to nearby homes.
The Israeli military carried out two airstrikes in the Palestinian Gaza strip Wednesday as a response to a rocket fired from the strip toward Israel. The Israeli attacks targeted two military facilities operated by the Hamas movement, which runs government affairs in the strip.
French fighter jets on Sunday bombarded the Syrian city of Raqqa — a major stronghold and self-declared capital of the radical Islamic State group — destroying a command post and a training camp, France’s Defense Ministry said.
According to AFP, 20 bombs were dropped on the Syrian city.
Yemen’s national army and resistance repulsed a major offensive launched by the Iranian-backed Houthis and their allies in the Southwestern town of Taiz as the coup rebels tried to block relief aid being smuggled into the besieged city.
Military sources said heavy fighting erupted South of Taiz, during which 19 coup insurgents were killed and 27 wounded, adding that the national forces seized a large quantity of weapons left by the rebels after they retreated.
Iraqi autonomous Kurdish region’s peshmerga forces and fighters from the Yazidi minority, a local Kurdish-speaking community which ISIS had targeted in the area, enter the northern Iraqi town of Sinjar, in the Nineveh Province, on November 13, 2015. AFP PHOTO / SAFIN HAMED
Kurdish forces backed by U.S. airstrikes seized the northern Iraqi town of Sinjar from ISIS on Friday, a Reuters witness said, in one of the most significant counter-attacks since the militants swept through the north last year.
“ISIL defeated and on the run,” the Kurdistan regional security council said in a tweet, using another name for ISIS. It said Kurdish peshmerga forces, which led the operation, had secured Sinjar’s wheat silo, cement factory, hospital and several other public buildings.