Those 68 casualties came from Baanu village on Friday night while locals said another 11 people were shot in Karnuwa and Hambagda on Saturday and Sunday.
War-torn Yemen is on the brink of famine, with millions of women and children most at risk of starvation as fighting around major ports stalls imports of food and other humanitarian aid, according to the United Nations.
Yemen’s exiled President Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi has approved a plan to establish three military formations, made up mainly of tribal fighters and former military personnel, to fight the Houthi insurgency in the Tihamah region, a military official has said.
With reports still coming in from the front, Rudaw’s Hiwa Hisamadin estimated that 18 ISIS fighters had been killed and a number of villages recaptured in Daquq district less than 40km south of Kirkuk city.
A report by an Israeli think tank indicates that IS militants may have used chemical weapons on July 12, 2014, in the Kurdish village of Avdiko in Syria.
On 17 August, for the first time in two years, the UN Security Council, including Russian Federation, agreed to a statement in favour of a push for a political solution. “I’m thinking of Turkey which must get involved in the fight against Daesh (an alternative name...
An average of eight children are killed or maimed every day in Yemen as a direct result of the conflict that has gripping the country since April. A wave of airstrikes that began Thursday and continued Friday has killed more than 60 people, Yemen’s Houthi-run Health...
Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) said on Tuesday it had treated four members of a family who suffered from breathing difficulties and developed blisters after a mortar hit their home in Marea.
Kurdish forces in northern Iraq drove Daesh militants out of ten villages in Kirkuk province on Wednesday with the support of US-led coalition airstrikes, Kurdish military sources told Reuters. The regional government’s peshmerga forces have been battling IS militants since...
A number of Mare’a residents said they suffered from asphyxiation after the ISIL terrorists fired shells seemingly containing toxic materials at the town on Saturday, Syria’s official SANA news agency reported.