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At least 27 people were killed Tuesday when rebels launched an attack on an army position in Yemen, an official said.
The attacks targeted an army position on the western outskirts of the country’s northern province of Amran, some 50 km north of the capital Sanaa, Xinhua reported.
The Syrian military has headed toward the border with Israel and Jordan for an offensive against Sunni rebels.
The opposition said the Syrian Army and Air Force launched a major offensive against U.S.-trained rebels near the frontier with Israel and Jordan.
Clashes that followed two simultaneous attacks by al-Qaeda suspects on army positions in Yemen’s southern province of Shabwa killed 10 soldiers and 13 jihadists on Wednesday, the army said.
“The Yemeni air force is participating in the battles, bombing columns of al-Qaeda vehicles trying to advance towards Azzan,” the Shabwa city that the army said it retook on Thursday last week.
Militants in northern Iraq ambushed an army convoy and abducted at least 20 soldiers before shooting them in the head, army officials said today - the latest in a growing series of execution-style attacks in the country.
The ambush took place yesterday near Ain al-Jahash in the northern province of Nineveh, one of the most unstable regions in Iraq and through which a long section of pipeline runs on its course from the Kirkuk oilfields to neighbouring Turkey.
Iraqi forces launched an operation Friday to retake areas near the militant-held city of Fallujah in preparation for an eventual assault, a senior officer said, as violence killed 11 people.
Antigovernment fighters have held Fallujah, just a short drive from Baghdad, and shifting parts of Anbar provincial capital Ramadi, farther west, since early January.