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Militants in Iraq attacked military barracks in a remote area in the country’s north and killed 15 troops overnight, officials said Tuesday, the latest blow to the government’s efforts to achieve stability.
According to two police officials, an unknown number of gunmen staged the assault on the barracks in Ayn al-Jahish village outside the northern city of Mosul late on Monday.
Different parts of Deir Ezzur in Eastern Syria came to be the scene of fierce clashes between Ahrar Al-Sham, Al-Nusra Front, Jund Al-Aziz and the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) in the last several hours after the first three terrorist groups struck an alliance to wage an all-out war on the rival Al-Qaeda militant group.
The Al-Nusra Front, Ahrar Al-Sham and Jund Al-Aziz came into terms after a series of long negotiations in a move to be able to stand up to the ISIL, a rival Saudi-backed branch of the al-Qaeda terrorist group in Eastern Syria and Western Iraq.
Clashes have broken out between Yemen’s Houthi Shia fighters and Salafist militants near the capital Sana’a, despite an earlier ceasefire between the warring parties.
The clashes erupted in the north of Arhab, 35 kilometers (20 miles) from the capital and near Amman international airport, on Friday.
Syrian rebels launched a new push in the northern province of Aleppo on Thursday to capture key symbols of the government and stormed a major section of a prison there, freeing hundreds of prisoners in the process, activists said.
The advance came amid a relentless air campaign by government forces that killed at least 11 people in an opposition held neighborhood of the provincial capital of Aleppo. Activists said government aircraft dropped so-called barrel bombs — containers packed with explosives, fuel and scrap metal that inflict massive damage upon impact.
The Syrian government extended its intense aerial campaign against rebel-held areas of the northern city of Aleppo on Monday, conducting a series of airstrikes that killed at least 18 people, including five children, activists said.
President Bashar Assad’s air force has pounded opposition areas of the divided city since mid-December, reducing apartment blocks to rubble and overwhelming already strapped hospitals and medical clinics with the wounded. On Sunday, government aircraft also targeted areas of east Aleppo under rebel control, killing nearly 40 people.