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Wasta Rasul who is a Peshmerga Commander in Kirkuk said today that violent clashes erupted against terrorists of the so called the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant in al- Noor compound south of Kirkuk, stressing that the Kurdistan Peshmerga forces liberated several villages during operations today.
More than 50 regime soldiers and Islamist terrorists were killed as they battled over a strategic hilltop in Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s home province, a monitoring group said on Thursday.
Government forces clashed with Al-Qaeda-affiliated terrorists backed by other armed Islamic terror groups in a village in Latakia province in the northwest, AFP reported.
Kurdish Peshmerga forces have bombard Islamic State (IS) bases on Khazir front north of Mosul, killing a number of jihadists.
A Peshmerga source told BasNews that the Peshmerga forces shelled the Khazir IS bases on Tuesday evening.
Iraqi security troops, backed by Shia, Sunni volunteers and tribal forces, have reportedly entered the strategic city of Tikrit from multiple directions, reports say.
Iraqi forces have reportedly taken control of the al-Qadisiyah neighborhood from ISIL Takfiri terrorists. The Takfiris are now besieged in the center of the city.
At least two militants and two soldiers died in an al-Qaeda assault on an army base in southern Yemen early on Monday, officials and residents said, in another sign of unraveling security.
The assault on the base in Mahfad in Abyan province was a setback for the country’s splintered military which, alongside local militiamen, had largely expelled al-Qaeda from the area’s towns in 2013.