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Opposition forces leave Somali capital after deadly clashes Soldiers loyal to influential opposition leaders began pouring into the capital, where clashes broke out with pro-government troops, killing three Updated 08 May 2021 May 08, 2021 02:08 MOGADISHU: Opposition fighters withdrew from the Somali capital on Friday, ending a tense standoff with pro-government troops after a dispute over delayed elections triggered the country’s worst political violence in years. Hundreds of heavily armed gunmen pulled out of strongholds in Mogadishu they had occupied since late April, when a long-runnin...

× A Palestinian family prepare traditional pastries to be sold in preparation for the upcoming Eid al-Fitr holiday which marks the end of Ramadan, in the village of Susya in the southern area of Hebron, on May 7, 2021. (Photo by HAZEM BADER / AFP) 1/4 Israeli police use a water cannon to disperse Palestinian protesters from the area near the Damascus Gate to the Old City of Jerusalem after clashes at the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound, Friday, May 7, 2021. (AP Photo/Mahmoud Illean) 2/4 A member of UNIFIL monitors from a hill by the border facing the Israeli northern town of Metula, during a ceremon...

By Reuters Staff 1 Min Read FILE PHOTO: Blast walls of a sleeping quarters for U.S. soldiers are seen at Ain al-Asad air base in Anbar province, Iraq January 13, 2020. REUTERS/John Davison BAGHDAD (Reuters) - An attack by an unmanned aerial surveillance system on Saturday targeted Iraq’s Ain al-Asad air base in western Iraq which hosts U.S. and other international forces, but it caused no injuries, a coalition spokesman said. U.S. Army Colonel Wayne Marotto, spokesman for the U.S.-led coalition, said on Twitter that the attack was being investigated but that an initial report suggests that ...

One another major attack hit an Iraqi base housing US troops. Here it is to be noted that a drone attack hit US troops , no casualties has been reported. As per the Iraqi military and the US-led coalition attach has no damage and causality. For your information let us share that the attack on the Ain Al-Asad air base was the fourth targeting US troops in Iraq in less than a week, as an armed campaign blamed on pro-Iranian groups intensifies. coalition spokesman Colonel Wayne Marotto said "Each attack... undermines the authority of Iraqi institutions, the rule of law and Iraqi national soverei...

May 08, 2021 - 12:51 AM BAGHDAD - In mid-April, A drone strike early on Saturday targeted a military base in Iraq that hosts U.S. troops, causing only minor damage and no casualties, Iraq's military and the U.S.-led coalition said. The pore-dawn attack damaged a hangar, tweeted coalition spokesman Col. Wayne Marotto. He said the attack was under investigation. An Iraqi military statement also said no losses were reported. No one has claimed responsibility for the attack. The U.S. has blamed Iran-backed militia groups for previous attacks, most of them rocket attacks that have ...