Tens of Syrian troops and affiliated fighters were killed Wednesday in a blast staged by an array of jihadist groups near a Syrian intelligence headquarters in Aleppo, a monitoring group reported.
Ukrainian military spokesman Vladislav Seleznyov said here Friday that at least 110 Ukrainian troops are being held captive by pro-independence rebels in eastern Ukraine, while 31 soldiers are still missing.
Syria's Defense Minister Fahed al-Jassem stressed Thursday that the Syrian troops are determined to eliminate the terrorists whenever located on Syrian soil, according to the state news agency SANA.
A Syrian lawmaker said on Friday that Syrian army has taken control of most parts of a tense eastern Damascus neighborhood, the pan-Arab al-Mayadeen TV reported.
Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko on Tuesday called a local election in eastern regions to be held " under Ukrainian law".
Two Ukrainian soldiers were killed and two other wounded in clashes with eastern independence-seeking insurgents over the past 24 hours, a military spokesman said Tuesday.
An al-Qaida suicide bombing struck a Shiite Houthi protest rally in the Yemeni capital Sanaa on Thursday, killing at least 47 people, the Health Ministry said, hours after the new prime minister quit the post amid threats of mass protests.
The Syrian troops on Monday dislodged the rebels from a strategic area in the eastern countryside of the capital Damascus, the official SANA news agency reported.
The United States on Wednesday threatened to slap sanctions on some of the Shiite rebels deemed to undermine Yemen's uneasy transition process.
The U.S. Senate on Thursday quickly approved President Barack Obama's plan to train and arm Syrian rebels in an effort to fight the Islamic State (IS) militant group, a day after the House of Representatives adopted the measure.
The Syrian forces killed up to 32 rebels on Wednesday in the countryside of capital Damascus, local media reported.
The United States said on Tuesday that the ceasefire reached days ago is "mostly holding" in eastern Ukraine, but Washington will decide on new sanctions against Russia over the next few days.
Yemeni riot police on Sunday evening fired tear gas to disperse Shiite Houth rebels who blocked a main road to the Sanaa International Airport in an escalation of their standoff with the government, witnesses told Xinhua. About 10 Shiite protesters were injured in the clashes.
Fresh fighting between military and a group of breakaway Muslim rebels erupted on Monday in the southern Philippine province of Maguindanao, leaving two rebels dead and 13 others wounded, the military said.
A soldier was killed in a clash with leftist rebels in southern Philippines on Wednesday, the military said on Thursday.
The ongoing Syria crisis, which began more than three years ago, shows no signs of abating, with infighting among rebel groups intensifying and the humanitarian situation worsening.
Leftist rebels are holding close to 40 civilians in southern Philippines, and negotiations were conducted to free the hostages, authorities said on Sunday.
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