Saudi Arabia hits more areas in Yemen

Edit Press TV 08 Jul 2016
The Saudi warplanes hit the town of Al Mukha in the Ta’izz Province in Yemen’s ... Earlier in the month, it was reported that Saudi mercenaries had killed three children in Yemen’s Jawf Province after assaulting a number of civilian buildings in the Matun district there....

Saudi airstrike leaves 15 allied militiamen dead in NW Yemen

Edit Press TV 08 Jul 2016
... others sustained injuries when Saudi warplanes struck a vehicle travelling along a road in the Harib al-Qaramish district of Yemen’s central province of Ma’rib ... Separately, Saudi forces fired several artillery rounds at an outdoor market in the al-Maton district of the northern Yemeni province of al-Jawf, leaving four civilians injured....

'I Study in a Cave': Going to School in Syria

Edit Voa News 08 Jul 2016
The conditions are not very good but the professor and his wife treat us very well," the 14-year-old, originally from neighboring Hama province, said ... Idlib province is a stronghold of insurgent groups including the al-QaIda-linked Nusra Front and has been regularly targeted in airstrikes by the Syrian government, whose war effort has been boosted by the Russian air force....

IS resists from naming wilayat in Bangladesh

Edit DNA India 08 Jul 2016
Narrated in English, the video spells out details of the organisational structure of the Islamic State or the Caliphate established in the captured territories of Iraq and Syria, its committees, provinces and ministries ruled under the guidance of the Caliph Abu Baqr al Baghdadi ... These include provinces in Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Libya, Yemen, Algeria, West Africa, Khorasan (technically Afghanistan, Pakistan and India) and Caucasia....

US says 2 drone strikes in Yemen killed 4 al-Qaida members

Edit The Miami Herald 08 Jul 2016
Central Command says the military has conducted two counterterrorism airstrikes targeting al-Qaida's branch in southern Yemen this month, killing four al-Qaida operatives....

Deadly air strikes continue across Syria despite truce

Edit Al Jazeera 08 Jul 2016
Air strikes have killed at least 22 people in Syria's northwestern Idlib province, as a government-announced ceasfire entered its third and final day and pro-government forces continued a push to encircle rebel-held areas of Aleppo city ... Darkush is held by the al-Qaeda affiliated al-Nusra Front and allied rebel groups, which control the entirety of northwestern province of Idlib ... Al Jazeera and agencies....

Activists say airstrikes in northern Syria kill more than 20

Edit Austin American Statesman 08 Jul 2016
Idlib province is controlled by a coalition of rebel and militant groups known as the Fatah Army, or Army of Conquest. The coalition dominated by the al-Qaida ......

Sunni fighters expand offensive in western Iraq

Edit Boston Herald 08 Jul 2016
BAGHDAD — Sunni insurgents led by an al-Qaida breakaway group expanded their offensive in a volatile western ......

Militant mortar attacks kill 17, wound 140 people in Syria’s Aleppo

Edit Press TV 08 Jul 2016
... northern province of Aleppo, killing nearly two dozen people and wounding over 100 others....

20 killed in suicide bombings in central Iraq

Edit Xinhua 08 Jul 2016
In the western province of Anbar, the security forces and allied paramilitary Hashd Shaabi units recaptured the areas of al-Hessi and Albu Eifan in southwest of the city of Fallujah, some 50 km west of the Iraqi capital of Baghdad, after clashes with the IS militants, leaving at least 17 militants killed and destroying three of their vehicles, a provincial security source told Xinhua on condition of anonymity....

Isis claims fresh bomb attack at Shia holy site north of Baghdad

Edit The Independent 08 Jul 2016
The Shia form a majority in Iraq but Sunnis are predominant in northern and western provinces, including Salahuddin where the mausoleum is located....

22 civilians dead in strikes on Syria Qaeda-held town: monitor

Edit Deccan Chronicle 08 Jul 2016
At least 22 civilians including a child were killed in air strikes on an al-Qaeda-held town in northwest Syria on Friday, a monitoring group said ... Darkush is held by Al-Qaeda affiliate al-Nusra Front and allied rebel groups, which control the northwestern province of Idlib ... The White House said the two leaders had confirmed their commitment to defeating ISIL (IS) and the al-Nusra Front....

At least 35 killed in attack on mausoleum north of Baghdad

Edit The Irish Times 08 Jul 2016
The attack on the Mausoleum of Sayid Mohammed bin Ali al-Hadi reignited fears of an escalation of the sectarian strife between Iraq’s Shias and Sunnis. The Shia form a majority in Iraq but Sunnis are predominant in northern and western provinces, including Salahuddin where the mausoleum is located. Prominent Shia cleric Moqtada al-Sadr ordered his ......
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