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Iraqi troops and Muslim militia forces attacked ISIL fighters on several fronts in the country’s largest province on Monday, saying the battle to drive the hardline militants out of Anbar was under way.
A spokesman for the joint operations command said the offensive, which began at dawn, brought together the army, mainly Hashid Shaabi militias, special forces, police and local Muslim tribal fighters.
Yemen’s warring factions on Thursday agreed to a temporary humanitarian ceasefire set to begin on Friday night, United Nations envoy Ismail Ould Cheikh Ahmed said, according to Reuters.
The pause in the fighting will last about a week until the end of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, with the goal of allowing the delivery of assistance to some of the 21 million Yemenis in need.
A security source in Salahuddin province announced on Thursday, that the security forces repelled ISIS attack southwest of Samarra, killing seven members of the organization.
Syrian troops and pro-government gunmen repelled on Tuesday an offensive by rebels and Muslim militants on a neighborhood in the northern city of Aleppo while opposition activists claimed that the army carried out a chlorine gas attack in another part of the city, activists and state media said.
The offensive, led by members of al-Qaida’s affiliate in Syria, the Nusra Front, began late Monday with a suicide attack followed by a ground offensive that led to the capture of several buildings in the western Zahra neighborhood, activists said.
Saudi media sources reported clashes between the Saudi army and Houthi militants on the bordering mountain of Tuwaileq.
Saudi military sources also said that Houthi forces shelled several locations in Jazan and Najran this morning, while the Saudi army fired back with heavy artillery.