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Iraqi officials say Islamic State militants have ambushed a military convoy in the country’s western Anbar province, killing at least 14 soldiers.
The officials, a military officer and a police officer, say numerous roadside bombs targeted a military convoy Wednesday morning as it was travelling on a highway outside the Islamic State-held city of Ramadi. They say that the attack in Khabaz area, about 170 kilometers west of Ramadi, also wounded 10 soldiers.
The Islamic State (ISIL) jihadist group failed in an attempt to occupy the Kweiris military airbase in the Syrian northern province of Aleppo, leaving 26 militants dead, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) said.
The attack took place on Sunday, according to SOHR. The jihadist group blew up three vehicles targeting airport walls, before the Syrian army repelled the assault.
At least 70 Saudi-backed militants have been killed in an attack by the Yemeni army, backed by popular committees, on their hideouts in the southern province of Abyan, local media reports say.
According to Yemen’s al-Masirah television network, fighters of the Houthi Ansarullah movement and allied Yemeni army units managed to kill several militants fighting for Yemen’s fugitive former president, Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi, in the city of Zinjibar, the capital of Abyan, on Saturday.
A blast triggered by a suicide bomber has killed 15 people at a mosque inside a special forces headquarters in Saudi Arabia near the border with Yemen.
An interior ministry spokesman said on Thursday that the “terrorist” attack took place during noon prayers in the city of Abha, in the southern province of Asir.
At least 14 Syrian rebels surrendered to Hezbollah in the border city of Zabadani Wednesday, as allied forces inch closer to claiming control of the last rebel stronghold along the Lebanese frontier, a security source said.
The surrender came as a major rebel group fighting in Zabadani announced the end of negotiations with Hezbollah and the Syrian army.