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Iraqi forces have captured a key air base from the Islamic State group that can serve as a launch pad for retaking the jihadist-held city of Mosul, Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi has said.
The Qayyarah air base in the Tigris valley 60 kilometres south of Mosul would be “an important base for the liberation of Mosul,” Mr Abadi said in a statement.
Heavy fighting has erupted inside South Sudan’s presidential palace as President Salva Kiir allegedly attempted to arrest his first deputy, Riek Machar, official sources have said.
“There is heavy fighting going on near the Presidential Palace in Juba as we speak,” James Gatdet Dak, Machar’s spokesperson told Sudan Tribune.
A skirmish between the army and the Kachin Independence Army (KIA) has been reported near a bridge on the Hpakant-Mogaung road on July 6.
The clash lasted a few minutes and no casualties were reported, said Lamai Khun Jar from the Peace Creation Group (PCG).
At least six Yemeni troops and around 20 militant attackers have been killed in an assault on a military base near the international airport of Yemen’s southern city of Aden, security sources say.
The assault began on Wednesday when two suicide bombers blew up their cars, followed by armed militants storming the Solaban base.
Turkish warplanes conducted airstrikes against outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) targets in the Beytüşşebap district of the southeastern province of Şırnak late on July 5.
The jets hit PKK targets between 8:10 p.m. and 8:23 p.m. in the rural Beytüşşebap after evaluating received intelligence, according to the Turkish Armed Forces (TSK). Several shelters belonging to the PKK were destroyed in the airstrikes, the TSK statement added.
