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Kurdish YPG fighters on the frontline against ISIS in Ras al-Ain, northern Syira. (Reuters)
ISIS has lost more ground to Kurdish fighters in the embattled city of Kobane in northern Syria, according to local reports.
“Kurdish forces now control more than 60 percent of the city,” said Rami Abdel Rahman, director of the London-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.
Syrian planes and helicopters have reportedly dropped improvised barrel bombs on Islamic State-held areas in the north-east, which activists say killed at least 40 civilians.
The air raids coincide with more than 30 air strikes by the US-led Combined Joint Task Force against Islamic State (IS) group targets in Iraq and Syria.
Jordanian Royal Air Force pilot was captured by the Islamic State (IS) Wednesday after his warplane went down in northeastern Syria, the Jordan Armed Forces – Arab Army (JAF) said in a statement.
Images of the arrest of Lieutenant Muath Kasasbeh, 27, from Karak Governorate, appeared on social media after his capture by the IS terrorists as the government pledged to continue war on terrorism in defending Islam.
Eighteen members of the Houthi militant group were killed Sunday and 22 others wounded in violent clashes with armed Arhab tribesmen in a northern Yemeni district that bears the tribe’s name, tribal sources said.
“Violent clashes erupted between Houthi militants and armed Arhab tribesmen which left 18 militants dead and 22 others wounded,” a tribal source told The Anadolu Agency.
The IDF struck a site belonging to Hamas in southern Gaza near Khan Yunis early Saturday morning, following an earlier rocket attack from Gaza into Israel on Friday afternoon, which exploded in open territory near the Eshkol Regional Council.
The reports are of at least two strikes by the Israel Air Force, which was reportedly assisted by the Israel Navy.