Kurdistan Regional Government Ministry of Peshmerga has announced Wednesday that 727 Peshmergas have been martyred and 3,564 injured in the fighting with the ISIS since 10 June 2014.

According to a statement issued by the Ministry of Peshmerga, the aftermath of 34 other fighters lost in action remains unknown.

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At least seven Yemeni soldiers were killed and nine others wounded after suicide car bomb attacks on a military base in the city of Seyoun in southern Yemen on Tuesday.

Two car bombs detonated at the military headquarters in Hadramout province in the northeast of the country, Yemeni intelligence officials told CNN.

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U.S.-led coalition airstrikes against Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant left 70 militants dead in northern Iraq, an Iraqi army commander said Monday.

Hiva Abdollah, deputy commander of Kirkuk Operations Unit, said the coalition’s warplanes bombed ISIL positions in Maqtap Khalit and Talalvard, about 7 miles from Kirkuk province.

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Israeli warplanes have attacked Syria on Sunday, with multiple bombing sorties against the Damascus International Airport damaging several unspecified facilities.

In addition to the airport, the Israeli planes also attacked the town of Dimas, near the Lebanese border. Reportedly military installations were hit on the outskirts of Dimas.

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Islamic State militants launched an attack overnight on a major military air base in eastern Syria in what looked to be a push to eliminate the last significant government outpost in the extremist-dominated region, activists said Thursday.

The airfield just outside the city of Deir el-Zour is a key military facility for President Bashar Assad, giving his warplanes a hub from which to bomb IS-held cities and towns across much of eastern Syria. For the Islamic State group, capturing the airport would eliminate the main pocket of resistance in the area and provide a major morale and propaganda boost after a string of setbacks in recent weeks.

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