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More than 60 fighters were killed in clashes in Yemen Friday between Iran-backed Houthi rebels and government forces in the strategic northern province of Marib, government sources said.
Earlier this month, the Huthis resumed a push to capture Marib city, 120 kilometers east of the rebel-held capital Sanaa.
The U.S. military carried out an airstrike against an Iranian-backed militia stronghold in Syria Thursday, a senior official told Fox News.
In the first known military action by President Biden, multiple facilities were struck by American F15 fighter jets that targeted Iraqi border-based Shia militia groups, Kait’ib Hezbollah and Kait’ib Sayyid al Shuhada.
Fighters of the Iraq’s al-Nujaba Islamic Resistance Movement in the form of the 12th Brigade of the Popular Mobilization Forces carried out a surprise attack on a terrorist hideout in northern Baghdad, killing the governor and the Grand Mufti of Daesh and destroying the remnants of this terrorist group.
According to the Communication and Media Affairs Centre of al-Nujaba in Iran, Iraqi fighters attacked a Daesh hideout in the al-Tarmiyah area of northern Baghdad in a surprise operation on February 21, killing the governor and Grand Mufti of Daesh in the area and arrested some key members of this terrorist group.
Four rockets hit the Al-Balad airbase north of the Iraqi capital on Saturday, the military said, as security sources told AFP a local contractor for a US company managing Iraq’s F-16s had been wounded.
The attack came hours after Iraqi security forces raided an Islamic State (IS) hideout in the plains of Tarmiyah, with clashes leaving five jihadists and two pro-government fighters dead, according to the Iraqi military.
Syria’s army said on Monday the country’s air defenses intercepted an “Israeli aggression” over the capital, Damascus, in the latest stepped-up bombing of Iranian targets inside the country.
State media did not give details of what was hit by the Israeli air force in the latest strikes by Israel against Iranian-backed military targets inside the country in the past two months.