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At least 82 civilians, including children, were killed on Sunday in Syrian army airstrikes on a busy market in a rebel-held town near Damascus, a monitoring group reported.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said that the strikes on the town of Douma on the eastern outskirts of the capital also wounded 250, dozens of them seriously.
Pakistan’s Punjab province Home Minister Shuja Khanzada was among 12 people killed on Sunday in a suicide bomb attack which destroyed his office in Attock city, authorities said.
Khanzada, a retired colonel of the Pakistan Army, succumbed to serious injuries he suffered after being buried under the rubble of the building, Punjab chief minister’s advisor Syeed Ilahi told Geo TV.
Rival armed groups in northern Mali said on Saturday they briefly exchanged fire in an apparent breach of a peace accord they signed with the government in June.
An exchange of gunfire took place south of Kidal, the stronghold of secular Tuareg rebels leading a coalition known as the Coordination of Azawad Movements, or CMA.
Gulf-supported forces loyal to Yemen’s exiled government on Saturday retook a fifth province in the country’s south, military officials said, as they continued their advance against Iran-backed rebels.
The rebels “withdrew” and “handed over” Shabwa to the pro-government forces after they were promised a safe route out of the province, a military official told AFP.
Three days of combat in the city of Sirte left a death toll of 106, including Islamic State (ISIL) militants and tribe members, news channel Al Arabiya reported today.
Most of the casualties are member of the Feryan community who refused to pledge allegiance to the extremists.
At least 17 people were killed in heavy clashes between ISIS fighters and a rival Islamist group in the ISIS-held city of Sirte in central Libya Thursday, residents said.
Earlier this week, a Salafist Muslim group and armed residents attacked ISIS fighters in Sirte, located about 500 km east of the capital Tripoli, accusing them of killing a prominent preacher in Sirte.
Iraqi officials say Islamic State militants have ambushed a military convoy in the country’s western Anbar province, killing at least 14 soldiers.
The officials, a military officer and a police officer, say numerous roadside bombs targeted a military convoy Wednesday morning as it was travelling on a highway outside the Islamic State-held city of Ramadi. They say that the attack in Khabaz area, about 170 kilometers west of Ramadi, also wounded 10 soldiers.