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Iraqi troops and allied tribesmen killed 57 Islamist militants in Anbar province on Monday, the Defence Ministry said, in advance of a possible assault on the Sunni rebel-held city of Falluja.
There was no independent verification of the toll among the militants, said to be members of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), a jihadi group also fighting in Syria.
The Houthis have overrun strongholds of powerfulFighters in Yemen tribes in northern Yemen, witnesses said Sunday, in a major advance following weeks of combat that have left scores dead.
The Houthis seized the town of Huth and Khamri village — the seat of the Hashid tribal chief, as tribal defence lines crumbled, local sources and witnesses said.
18 soldiers were killed and four wounded by suspected al-Qaeda militants in an attack on an army checkpoint in southeastern Yemen on Friday, an army official said.
The soldiers were ambushed as they were having lunch in a desert area near the city of Shibam, in the eastern province of Hadramout, residents said. The army official said the gunmen were likely to be al-Qaeda militants.
Tribal sources have confirmed on Thursday that for the past consecutive days the Houthis (Shiite tribal faction which stronghold is located in the northern province of Sa’ada) have relentlessly assaulted tribesmen affiliated to al-Islah (Sunni radical faction) just north the Yemeni capital, Sana’a.
Although President Abdo Rabbo Mansour Hadi negotiate a truce earlier this month, keen to restore order as NDC representatives hashed out the last details of Yemen’s reconciliation talks and institutional overall, the warring factions have unable and unwilling to sustain a meaningful ceasefire so far.
Turkish army attacked a convoy that belongs to the al-Qaeda-linked Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) in northern Syria, the Turkish military said in a statement on Wednesday.
The Turkish military struck a number of vehicles that belong to the radical group, after militants opened fire on a military outpost on Turkey-Syria border on Wednesday.