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ISIS said Thursday that it has executed at least 250 Syrian soldiers at an air base in the northeastern city of Raqqa.
The group said on one of its official websites that it killed the soldiers Wednesday. It also claimed to have killed 600 government soldiers in the fight for the al Tabqa air base since Aug. 19.
Smoke rises on the Israeli side of the border in a photo taken today.
Syrian rebel fighters, including members of the jihadist Al Nusra Front, Wednesday seized control of the Quneitra border crossing which separates Syria from the Golan Heights, occupied by Israel.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said at least twenty members of the Syrian armed forces and its allied militias were killed in the clashes.
A rocket fired from Lebanese territory hit northern Israel late Saturday, the army said on the 47th day of a war against the Islamist movement Hamas in and around Gaza.
“A rocket fired from Lebanon just hit Israel east of Akko,” the army said in a statement at 1945 GMT.
Iraqi officials say at least 40 people have been killed in an attack on a Sunni mosque in northeastern Iraq.
A police officer said that gunmen broke into the mosque and opened fire in Imam Wais village, near Baquba in Diyala Province, some 120 kilometers northeast of Baghdad.
Tens of thousands of Shiite rebel supporters are in the capital Sanaa in a bid to topple the government. Thousands of armed rebels strengthened their position on Wednesday as they pressed on with their campaign.
Led by heavily armed Shiite rebels, thousands of demonstrators are demanding the government step down by the end of the week. Rebel commander Abdulmalik al-Huthi said the authorities must meet protesters’ grievances by the end of the week, or additional forms of “legitimate action” would take place.