أرشيف الوسم : army

The Syrian Air Defense Chief General Hussein Ishaq was killed on Sunday in a military offensive against rebels near Damascus. General Ishaq was wounded on Saturday during the military’s assault on the town Mleiha to the east of Damascus, and succumbed to his wounds on Sunday. The military offensive aims to increase the area near the capital under the President’s …

On Wednesday, suspected al-Qaeda forces simultaneously struck at two army positions in South Yemen, with the subsequent clashes resulting in the deaths of 13 insurgents, 9 army soldiers and an aide to the Defense Minister. Only five days ago, Defense Minister Mohamed Nasser Ahmad and two other security officers barely escaped an ambush as they were returning from the south. …

An attack on the Yemeni Presidential Palace by suspected Al-Qaeda militants triggered a fierce gunfight and led to the deaths of five guards, as the militants hit back after the launch of an army offensive aimed to crush them. President Abdrabuh Mansour Hadi was not in the palace when the gunmen attacked at a checkpoint outside the compound. Hadi only …

Fighting between Jihadist groups ISIL and the Al-Nusra killed 63 people in Eastern Syria on Monday despite the al-Qaeda chief’s call for a ceasefire, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said. The clashes between the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) and the Al-Nusra Front have prompted over 60,000 people to abandon their homes in the oil-rich region. …

Gunfire stopped distribution of food today in a besieged Palestinian refugee camp, a United Nations spokesperson confirmed today, reiterating demands that the UN agency assisting Palestinian refugees be allowed to safely and without interruption distribute substantial quantities of food and other humanitarian assistance inside Yarmouk. Spokesman Chris Gunness said the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the …

Yemeni forces on Tuesday launched an operation to remove all al-Qaeda forces from the southern towns in the country, where air strikes have killed about 60 militants last week. Their offensive began a few hours before the Friends of Yemen meeting began in London, where the delivery of aid to poverty-stricken country is to be discussed. The al-Qaeda has taken …

يوم الاربعاء ، سقطت عدة صواريخ على المنطقة الشرقية من البقاع في لبنان و ذلك  عقب أن قامت  طائرة حربية سورية  في وقت سابق بغارات على مشارف بلدة عرسال . ووفقا للتقارير،  سقط صاروخ بين  منطقتي بريتال و آل الطيبة و سقط صاروخين آخرين بالقرب من مزرعة قاسم مظلوم،  كما سقط اخر في منطقة عين الجوزه في البقاع. لم تكن …