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Syrian rebels and jihadists from the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria have agreed a non-aggression pact for the first time in a suburb of the capital Damascus, a monitoring group said on Friday.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the ceasefire deal was agreed between ISIS and moderate and Islamist rebels in Hajar al-Aswad, south of the capital.
At least 100 militants from ISIL terrorist group have been killed in a series of violent clashes with government troops across Iraq.
The terrorists were killed during mop-up operations in the towns of Haditha, Barwanah and Khafajah in the west of the provincial capital city of Ramadi.
According to Ukraine army HQ press officer Olexy Dmytrashkivsky, the army repulsed another night enemy attack on the Donetsk airport – despite the peace agreement signed in Minsk.
Syrian army retook full control of the town of Halfaya and its surrounding areas in the western province of Hama.
Army units, backed by the National Defense volunteer forces, also cleared a number of villages in the northern Hama countryside.
Militias fighting with Islamist groups in Libya’s eastern city of Benghazi have captured up to 25 soldiers and killed five others, according to an army commander in the city.
Special forces commander Fadhil al-Hasi told Reuters that fighters from Majlis al-Shura, a Misrata-linked militia coalition including the powerful Ansar al-Sharia, had attacked an army checkpoint, killing five.
Jamaat-ul-Ahrar TTP, the new splinter group of the Movement of the Taliban in Pakistan (Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan, or TTP), released a graphic as well as a statement celebrating al-Qaeda’s attack on the US on Sept. 11, 2001. The image and statement were emailed by Ihsanullah Ihsan, the group’s spokesman, to The Long War Journal. The image is reproduced above, and the statement, titled #Happy911, is here.
Sixty-five suspected militants were killed in aerial strikes by fighter jets in the North Waziristan tribal region, the military said on Wednesday. The claims, however, could not be independently verified as journalists have limited access to the restive tribal agency.
A statement from the Inter-Services Public Relations said, “Three terrorist hideouts were destroyed in precision strikes in the northwest of Dattakhel early on Wednesday killing 35 terrorists.”