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Turkish-backed Syrian opposition fighters resumed a major offensive inside the Daesh-held city of al-Bab on Thursday, a day after they broke through Daesh defences in its remaining stronghold in Aleppo province.
The advance into al-Bab threatens an important Daesh stronghold, whose fall would push the terror group further back from the Turkish border region, from which they launched rocket attacks into neighbouring towns in Turkey.
ISIL has claimed responsibility for the attack on Village Hotel in Bosaso, the commercial hub of Puntland region, that killed 4 pro-government forces on election day, Garowe Online reports.
The Islamic State (ISIS) group released on Wednesday a statement, claiming responsibility for the hotel raid, which left six people, including 2 attackers dead.
Clashes broke out twice between the Ta’ang National Liberation Army (TNLA) and the Shan State Army-North (SSA-N) in Kyaukme Township on Sunday, according to local sources.
Col Tar Phone Kyaw, a TNLA spokesperson, told The Irrawaddy on Monday that fighting occurred after negotiations failed to yield an agreement regarding the crossing of territory.
At least 47 people have reportedly been killed in clashes in the past three days between militias and Congolese armed forces in the Democratic Republic of Congo, a civil society source told Anadolu Agency.
The clashes between rebel and armed forces first erupted on Friday in the town of Luiza, in the Kasai-Central province, a member of a civil society organization said late Monday on condition of anonymity due to security reasons.
After clashes with Islamic State’s (ISIS) militants, the US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) on Sunday captured two towns in eastern Raqqa.
“The SDF forces today seized control of the Hadi and Natali towns in the eastern countryside of Raqqa,” an SDF spokesman told ARA News.
Yemeni army soldiers, backed by fighters from allied Popular Committees, have killed at least seven Saudi troops in the kingdom’s southwestern border regions of Najran and Jizan as the Riyadh regime pushes ahead with its campaign against Yemen.
According to a report by Yemen’s Arabic-language al-Masirah television network, the Yemeni forces on Sunday gunned down two Saudi troops in a sniper attack on al-Tala’a military base in Najran, and killed three more by attacking al-Makhroq base with rocket-propelled grenades in the same region.
One person was killed and five others were injured in clashes between Fursan Janzour Brigade and armed groups from the so-called Tribes Army – whose loyalty goes to Khalifa Haftar’s Operation Dignity – in Sayad district.
The casualties are from the Fursan Janzour Brigade, as the Tribes Army-affiliated armed groups said nothing to the media.