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A Yemeni security official says two soldiers have been killed and two others wounded after a bomb placed under their car exploded at a checkpoint in the capital.
The official said Saturday’s explosion in Sanaa also wounded a passer-by. The official spoke on condition of anonymity according to regulations. No group immediately claimed responsibility for the attack.
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s forces launched a major offensive today against rebels in Homs, a centre of the two-year uprising.
It is Mr Assad’s latest drive to secure an axis linking Damascus to the Mediterranean.
Activists said jets and mortars pounded rebel-held areas of the city which have been under siege by Mr Assad’s troops for a year, and soldiers fought battles with rebel fighters in several districts.
Syrian rebels advancing from the Jordanian border seized a strategic army position in the southern city of Daraa on Friday as fighting raged in the surrounding province, a watchdog said.
“They seized two buildings in the provincial capital that regime forces were using to keep the whole city under surveillance,” Syrian Observatory for Human Rights director Rami Abdel Rahman said.
FIERCE battles have raged on the edges of Damascus as the army presses a major assault to crush rebels around the capital, a monitoring group and activists say.
And in the contested city of Aleppo in the country’s north, rebels attempted to advance into western regime-held districts, sparking clashes with government forces, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said on Tuesday.
The Israeli Army launched seven air strikes on different districts in the Gaza Strip on Monday morning.
Palestinian security sources told that after the missile attack from Gaza Sunday night, Israeli warplanes attacked the districts of Rafah, Khan Yunis and Al Zawaideh for seven times. Most of the missiles hit non-residential areas why there was no casualtines.