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Syrian army has recaptured Der Maker town plus two hills in Damascus countryside amid continuity of operations against terrorist organizations outside Daraa and Idlib, according to military sources.
A military source was quoted on the official news agency (SANA) as citing that army units restored stability and peace to Der Maker town and regained control of al-Serjeh and al-Aros hills in the southwestern countryside of Damascus.
ISIS has withdrawn some of its insurgents and equipment from areas northeast of the Syrian city of Aleppo, rebels and residents say, adding to signs of strain in the Syrian provinces of its self-declared caliphate.
The group, which has recently lost ground to Kurdish and Syrian government forces elsewhere in Syria, has pulled fighters and hardware from several villages in areas northeast of Aleppo, they said. But it has not fully withdrawn from area.
A day after taking power, Shiite rebels in Yemen found themselves increasingly under pressure Saturday as thousands protested against their rule and a group of nearby countries denounced their “coup.”
The leader of the Houthi rebels, Abdel-Malak al-Houthi, gave an impassioned speech defending dissolving Yemen’s parliament Friday as the only response to a power “vacuum” — one his group created by besieging the country’s president, who later resigned.
Syrian Kurdish fighters have seized dozens of villages from Islamic State group jihadists around the town of Kobani in Syrian Kurdistan on the Turkish border, expanding their control in the area, a monitor said Friday.
The Kurdish People’s Protection Units (YPG) had captured 101 villages around Kobani since seizing it from IS on January 26 after four months of fighting, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.
Jordanian fighter jets flew over the hometown of a pilot killed by Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) group and the capital Amman on Thursday after completing a mission, state television said without giving the location of their sortie, Reuters reported.
However, Iraqi media said that the Jordanian airstrikes have killed 55 ISIS militants including a senior commander known as the “Prince of Nineveh.”