Up to 14 members of Islamic State (IS) militants were killed on Monday in an air strike and clashes with the Iraqi security forces in the country’s largest province of Anbar, a provincial security source said, APA reports quoting Xinhua.

The clashes erupted in the early morning when dozens of IS militants attacked the troops and allied militias, known as Hashd Shaabi, stationed in compound of Fallujah University, just south of the IS-held city of Fallujah, the source told Xinhua on condition of anonymity.

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Around 1,000 soldiers from Qatar’s Armed Forces have been deployed to Yemen, as part of the Arab coalition’s fight against Houthi rebels, Al Jazeera has learned.

An Al Jazeera journalist, reporting from the Saudi-Yemen border, said the troops were backed by more than 200 armoured vehicles and 30 Apache combat helicopters.

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Warplanes from the United Arab Emirates have struck rebel targets across Yemen, a day after at least 60 soldiers from a Saudi-led coalition, most of them from the UAE, were killed in an attack in central Yemen.

Medical sources at hospitals in the capital Sanaa, which has been under effective control of the rebel Houthi militia for almost a year, said about 24 civilians were killed in the city as a result of the coalition’s attacks.

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At least fourty seven fighters were killed in northern Syria in renewed fighting between the Islamic State group jihadists and rebels in Aleppo province, reports said on Saturday.

The fighting occurred on the town of Marea, which the IS has been trying to capture from the rebel forces who are in control. Twenty-seven IS jihadists and twenty Islamist and other rebel fighters were killed in clashes over the last two days.

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At least 50 soldiers from the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain were killed in Yemen on Friday in the deadliest attack on Gulf Arab troops in the Saudi-led military campaign against Houthi forces, Gulf news agencies said.

The incident took place in the oil-producing Marib area of central Yemen near the border with Saudi Arabia, apparently when Houthis rocket fire hit a weapons store at a military camp.

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