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The military and security troops have killed an al-Qaeda leader called “Abu Muslim al-Uzbeki”, an official source said Thursday.
The troops backed by aircrafts killed also six other militants of al-Qaeda and destroyed three vehicles, the source said, adding that many militants were arrested, including one surveillance operative.
Twin car bombs claimed by jihadists on a government-held district of Syria’s third city Homs killed at least 100 people, mostly civilians, a monitoring group said Wednesday, sharply raising an earlier toll.
Tuesday’s attack was the deadliest of its kind in Homs since the Syrian conflict erupted three years ago, and came as government forces make a new attempt to overrun the handful of remaining rebel enclaves in the city centre.
Yemen army launched a ground offensive against al-Qaeda in different areas in south of country. Military sources referred it.
The operation comes ten days after a series of air raids that, according army, have killed sixty terrorists.
L’operazione arriva dieci giorni dopo una serie di raid aerei che, secondo l’esercito, hanno ucciso una sessantina di terroristi.
Opposition fighters in the Syrian border town of Zabadani surrendered after intense fighting with army troops, losing their last stronghold along Lebanon’s border.
The Syrian army was now in near total control of the Qalamoun region, West of Damascus, Al-Alam reported.
Dozens of opposition fighters reportedly handed themselves over to the Syrian authorities.
Iraq’s army attacked a convoy of extremist rebel fighters inside eastern Syria, leaving eight dead Sunday as the vehicles approached the country’s border, according to Agence France Presse.
Iraq’s Brigadier General Saad Maan told AFP, “The army struck eight tanker trucks in Wadi Suwab inside Syrian territory as they were trying to enter Iraqi territory to provide the (jihadist) Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) with fuel.”