Iraqi security forces and the U.S.-led coalition say the government has regained full control of Ramadi after pushing Islamic State group fighters out of the city’s outskirts.

The Ministry of Interior said in a statement Tuesday that a road linking Ramadi to the capital Baghdad is also back under government control.

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The Islamic State claimed responsibility for a suicide bombing that killed at least nine people at a police club in the Syrian capital on Tuesday.

The attack occurred in the Masaken Barzeh district in northeastern Damascus. The BBC, quoting activists, reported the dead were police officers and at least 20 other people were injured in the blast, which also damaged a nearby vegetable market.

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At least nine civilians and 16 rebel fighters have been killed as security forces battle militants of the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) in Turkey’s mainly Kurdish southeast, the army and the region’s main political party said on Monday.

Violence has raged in the region since the collapse of peace talks last July aimed at ending a three-decade PKK insurgency.

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Twenty-nine people in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) have died in clashes between rebels from the Democratic Liberation Forces of Rwanda (FDLR) and the Mai Mai (a local armed group).

The violence in the eastern DRC was revealed to Anadolu Agency by a spokesman for a local civil society group late on Sunday.

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Neighborhood 400 fight axis, in east coast, Derna city, was a battlefield for fresh heavy clashes that erupted this Saturday between Derna Shura Council revolutionaries and IS/Daesh militants.

The surveillance battalion of the Derna Shura Council, along with the backup units from the city’s young men, has managed to observe the movement of IS/Daesh militants in the mountainous area overlooking the east coast (also known as Al-Hajjaj), and then showered it with heavy artillery fire.

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