Officials in the south-eastern province of Hadhramawt have confirmed on Monday that unknown armed men attacked a military-manned checkpoint east of the regional capital of Mukalla. Saba (news state agency) already reported that an estimated 20 men had already died in the violent clashes, a number which could substantially grow higher as the military will work to assess its losses and identify the dead.

“Twenty soldiers were killed in the armed attack on an army checkpoint near Reida, 135 kilometres east of the provincial capital Mukalla in the south,” Saba wrote.

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A Syrian warplane violated Turkey’s airspace and was shot down by F-16 pilots, Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan has said.

Speaking at a local election rally in Kocaeli, near Istanbul on Sunday, the Turkish leader told ruling AK Party supporters: “If you violate our airspace, then our response will be strong; you need to suffer the consequences.”

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Islamic militants have taken control of a village in northern Iraq as bombings and shootings killed at least 27 people nationwide.

Gunmen led a predawn raid on the village of Sarha, setting off a truck bomb.

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IDF forces struck a number of Syrian military and security targets connected to the blast that injured four Israeli soldiers on Tuesday, the IDF Spokesman said early on Wednesday.

The attack killed one person and wounded seven others, Syria’s armed forces said, warning that the attacks endangered stability in the region.

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Syrian army forces were Monday readying an assault on the last rebel-held areas in the Qalamoun mountains, located on the Lebanese border, after overrunning the key opposition bastion Yabrud.

“The army will, under the battle plan, launch operations in all areas where terrorists are to be found,” a security source in Damascus told AFP.

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