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Fighting has intensified outside the Yemeni capital, killing at least 30 people in two days, security officials and tribal elders said Tuesday.
Some 25 fighters from both sides were killed in clashes between government forces and Shi’ite rebels and their allies some 65 kilometers east of Sanaa, they said, adding that five civilians were also killed when artillery shells hit residential areas.
The Syrian government launched a major offensive from the north of Aleppo and captured several strategically important towns, as talks in Geneva on a ceasefire continued on Tuesday.
Monday’s advance opened the way for President Bashar al-Assad’s forces to retake Aleppo, Syria’s largest city, as troops marched through the towns of Hardatnein, Tal Jibbeen, and Deir Zaitoun.
Tunisian police have clashed with gunmen in a remote mountainous area in the southern region of Gabes, killing at least two militants, the interior ministry said on Monday.
Tunisia’s security forces are on a campaign against militants who have targeted military checkpoints and patrols in outlying areas. ISIS has also claimed three deadly urban attacks last year that hit Tunisia’s tourism industry.
A suicide bomber has killed 20 people at a police headquarters in the Afghan capital Kabul, officials say.
At least 29 others were wounded in the blast in the west of the city, the interior ministry said.
Heavy fighting has erupted in northeastern Lebanon over the weekend between the major Islamist factions in the Syrian Civil War, ISIS and al-Qaeda’s Jabhat al-Nusra, who fought on the outskirts of the town of Arsal, which is housing tens of thousands of refugees.
Reports from the area suggest at least nine ISIS and seven Nusra fighters were killed in the weekend fighting, and local Sheikh Mustafa Hujeiri, seen as close to Nusra, is said to be trying to broker some sort of local truce between the two sides to end the fighting.