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Israeli warplanes attacked several sites in the Gaza Strip Sunday, sources on both sides said, hours after a rocket from the besieged Palestinian enclave hit Israel.
Palestinian medical and security sources said five sites in northern and southern Gaza were hit, including training camps for the militant Islamic Jihad and Ezzedine al-Qassam Brigades, Hamas’s military wing.
At least six Yemeni soldiers and three militants died in a raid on a major army headquarters in Aden on Wednesday, medics and local media said.
State news agency Saba quoted a security source in the city as saying al Qaeda militants tried to storm the army’s Fourth Division headquarters in Aden’s al-Tawahi district after detonating a car laden with explosives outside the main gate.
Two members of Yemen’s auxiliary Popular Resistance Committees were killed in an overnight ambush by presumed al-Qaeda members in the south, a member of the pro-government militia said on Sunday.
He said the men were gunned down on the road between Loder and Moudia northeast of Zinjibar, the capital of Abyan province.
The Syrian authorities released 500 rebels who recently surrendered themselves to the army on Saturday in the country’s southern province of Daraa, as part of the government’s reconciliation efforts, the official SANA news agency reported.
The 500 rebels were released in the town of Sanamain in Daraa, SANA said, adding that the release process took place with the presence of Grand Mufti Ahmad Hassoun who urged them to support their government in order to end the “terrorism” in Syria.
Hard-line Islamic rebels captured a small town in northwestern Syria near the Turkish border as part of their offensive in the rugged coastal region that is a bastion of support for President Bashar Assad, activists said Monday.
Fighters from an array of armed opposition groups seized the predominantly Armenian Christian town of Kassab on Sunday. The rebels, including militant from the al-Qaida-affiliated Nusra Front, have also wrested control of a nearby border crossing to Turkey.