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Dozens of ISIS terrorists were killed on Saturday in shelling and battles in Anbar province west of the country, according to officials.
Most of the dead were killed by air strikes launched by the international coalition led by the United States aircraft, prompting the organization to open an internal investigation with its members, according to an Iraqi security official.
Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) took responsibility on Friday for the attack on the Paris satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo.
A statement provided to the Associated Press said “the leadership of AQAP directed the operations and they have chosen their target carefully.”
Islamic State (IS) militants launched a major attack on Samarra, a city in Iraq’s northern central province of Salahudin, a provincial security source said.
The attack occurred at dawn when five suicide bombers blew up their explosives-laden trucks near the security checkpoints on a highway and at the western entrance of Samarra, some 120 km north of Iraq’s capital Baghdad, the source told Xinhua on condition of anonymity.
A car bomb exploded outside a police college in Yemen’s capital Sanaa early on Wednesday, killing around 40 people and wounding more than 50 others, police sources and residents said.
Security in Yemen has diminished since a 2011 popular uprising that led to a change of government and splits in the army. Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP), one of the movement’s most active wings, has staged a growing number of bombings and shootings across the country.
Kurdish fighters have advanced in the northern Syrian town of Kobani after heavy fighting with Islamic State militants, local officials and activists say.
Kobane official Idriss Nassan and the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said Syrian Kurdish forces had captured the so-called security quarter, which houses the police headquarters and other government buildings.