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At least 95 people have been reportedly been killed in Syrian regime airstrikes on the Islamic State group’s self-proclaimed capital.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said at least 52 of the dead in Raqqa were civilians, but is unclear if any of the other casualties were militants.
Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) on Sunday announced that its fighters and allied tribesmen in Rada’a city and surrounding villages in Al-Baida governorate carried out six attacks against Houthis on Saturday and Sunday.
AQAP posted on its Twitter page on Sunday that its fighters targeted a Houthi vehicle in Hamat Bani Sarar village of Rada’a earlier that day and killed all members on board. AQAP failed to provide the specific number of casualties.
Egyptian military forces have killed 10 militants during an operation in the violence-plagued Sinai Peninsula of the North African country.
Army spokesman, Brigadier General Mohamed Samir, stated on Sunday that the militants were killed in an exchange of fire with Egyptian soldiers as they tried to attack a military checkpoint in the area on Saturday.
Iraqi soldiers backed by Sunni fighters launched a major operation Saturday to retake a section of the city of Ramadi seized by Islamic State terrorists, an official and residents said.
The fighting focused on Ramadi’s eastern Sijariya neighborhood, which the extremist group said it captured Friday.
Suspected Islamic State militants launched coordinated attacks on Friday around the western Iraqi city of Ramadi, overrunning a village to the east and clashing with tribal fighters to the west, a local official and a tribal leader said.
Ramadi, about 90 km west of Baghdad, is located in the Sunni Muslim Anbar province which is a stronghold of the Islamic State forces who have captured much of northern and western Iraq.