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The Syrian army has captured a key southern town from rebel forces after weeks of fierce fighting, a Syrian activist group says.
The fall of Sheikh Maskin on Monday means government forces will strengthen their hold on Deraa province, while cutting off rebel factions from key supply lines.
A rocket fired from Gaza landed in southern Israel and IDF fighter jets reportedly responded with an attack on Hamas targets inside the Palestinian-controlled coastal strip.
The rocket fired at Israel landed in an open area and there were no injuries, officials said.
Subsequent to fierce clashes with the Kurdish Peshmerga forces, at least 20 militant fighters from the Islamic State (ISIS) were killed and more than 25 others were wounded near Mosul city in Iraq’s northwestern province of Nineveh, the Peshmerga said in a statement on Saturday.
“Daesh terrorists attacked our (Peshmerga) headquarters in Makhmur district southeast of Mosul, using car bombs and mortar shells,” the Kurdish leadership said in a statement, using another acronym for ISIS.
Syrian government forces edged closer to a key rebel town in the coastal province of Latakia Friday, backed by Russian air strikes and military advisers, activists said.
Soldiers and pro-government fighters advanced to around five kilometers (three miles) from the town of Rabia, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.
Dozens of Saudi-led forces have been killed in a new ballistic missile attack on Yemen’s central province of Marib.
Local sources in Yemen reported that the army and the Popular Committees fired a Tochka missile on al-Bairaq military base.