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Three Turkish soldiers were killed Thursday in clashes with fighters from the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) in northern Iraq, the army said.
“Three of our heroic comrades fell as martyrs as a result of clashes with members of the separatist terrorist organization in northern Iraq,” the army said, referring to the PKK which is designated as a terror group by Turkey and its Western allies.
Israel has attacked militant sites in Gaza after coming under the heaviest barrage of mortar and rocket fire from the Palestinian enclave in years.
The Israeli army said air strikes hit 35 targets, including a cross-border tunnel, belonging to Hamas and Islamic Jihad - Gaza’s main militant groups.
Three Palestinians were killed by tank fire on Sunday, hours after an Israeli soldier wounded in a West Bank raid died.
The Gazan health ministry said the incident happened east of the city of Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip, and identified those killed as Hussein Al Amour, 25, and Abdul Haleem Al Naqa, 28, and Marwa Al Amour, 25.
Three Ukrainian servicemen were killed in fighting with pro-Russian rebels in the east of the country as fighting intensified in the region, Kiev said on Sunday.
Ukraine’s defence ministry said one soldier was killed in fighting late on Saturday. The country s security service (SBU) later on Sunday confirmed two other servicemen were killed in shelling in the Luhansk region.
With the support of the UAE Armed Forces operating as part of the Saudi-led coalition in Yemen, the Yemeni National and Tihama Resistance Forces, and the Giants’ Brigades continued advancing towards the Al Jah area in the Bayt Al Faqih District, reaching within 50km of the strategic Hodeida port. This comes amid an unprecedented state of confusion, panic and collapse in Al Houthi militia defences and ranks, as a result of the surprise military operations.
The resistance forces found - during the combing and purging operations - very large quantities of weapons, ammunitions and military equipment and vehicles after the militia fled Al Mugris and the farms they were hiding in within the Tahita district.
Fighting between Somalia’s semi-autonomous Puntland region and breakaway Somaliland has killed dozens of soldiers, according to a witness and a military commander who spoke of a “hellish” outbreak of violence.
The clashes on Thursday morning appeared to be a resumption of more than 10 years of periodic conflict between Puntland and Somaliland over the disputed Sool region.
The armies of breakaway Somaliland and Puntland early Thursday engaged each other in heavy fighting, reports said.
Both sides reportedly employed light and heavy guns near Tukaraq District, about 1,100km northwest of the Somali capital Mogadishu.