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The Iraqi army stands on the verge of recapturing Ramadi from Isil after troops advanced into the centre of the city, according to the Baghdad government.
Terrorists from the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (Isil) seized Ramadi, the capital of Anbar province and a city with about 450,000 people, as long ago as May.
A group of about 50 Syrian Christian women have left their homes, jobs, and children to form a new battalion to fight the encroaching ISIS terrorists.
The battalion is called the Female Protection Forces of the Land Between the Two Rivers - referring to the Tigris and the Euphrates.
Taliban forces have taken almost full control of a key district in Afghanistan’s southern Helmand province after several days of fierce fighting, a police official told CNN on Monday.
The Taliban took over the entire district except for the police chief’s compound and another compound where a battalion of Afghan National Army is based in, according to Mohammad Dawood, the police chief of Sangin district in the province.
Israeli has attacked targets in southern Lebanon with artillery fire and flown warplanes over the capital Beirut in retaliation for three rockets being fired into northern Israel from Lebanese territory.
The exchange came after an Israeli air strike killed a Lebanese Hezbollah operative in the Syrian capital Damascus on Saturday.
Despite an announcement yesterday by Ajdabiya mayor Salem Jedhran that a ceasefire had been agreed by Islamist militants from the Ajdabiya Revolutionaries Shoura Council (ARSC), and supporters of the Libyan National Army (LNA) who have been fighting in the town since Wednesday, clashes continued today.