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The U.S. military said March 6 that Iraqi forces have cleared Islamic State (IS) militants from the western town of Baghdadi.
Iraqi security forces and tribal fighters supported by U.S.-led coalition air strikes have been attacking IS in Baghdadi for days.
The town, on the western banks of the Euphrates River, is in the western province of Anbar and is located near an air base where U.S. military personnel are training Iraqi soldiers.
An attack targeting leaders of the jihadist Al-Nusra Front in Syria has killed several leaders of the al-Qaeda affiliate in the northwestern province of Idlib.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said “a number of al-Nusra Front leaders were killed” in the attack as they gathered for a meeting, but was unable to say if its chief, Abu Mohamed al-Jolani, was among them.
Dozens were killed Wednesday when Syrian rebels set off a powerful tunnel explosion targeting an intelligence headquarters in Aleppo and clashed with regime forces, a monitor said.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the blast hit a building housing the air force intelligence offices in the west of Syria’s second city and was followed by heavy clashes, reports AFP.
Iraq has launched a military operation to recapture former leader Saddam Hussein’s hometown of Tikrit from Islamic State (IS).
Troops and militia were said to be attacking on different fronts, backed by airstrikes from Iraqi fighter jets.
Kurdistan Peshmerga forces repelled on Sunday an attacked by ISIL in Makhmuri, when Coalition aircraft bombed a number of ISIL’s hideouts.
A security source told PUKmedia that ISIL attacked Peshmerga forces last night, in Makhmuri axis, adding that Kurdistan Peshmerga forces repelled ISIL attack that killed and injured dozens of terrorists.