Syria rebels, jihadists clash, 19 killed
Beirut: Clashes between jihadists and rebels in northern Syria have killed at least 19 people, a war monitor said Tuesday.
The fighting, pitting Al-Qaeda-linked coalition Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) against an alliance of rebel groups, flared in western Aleppo province, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.
HTS had on Monday accused rebel group Nureddine al-Zinki of killing five of its fighters, and launched an offensive against rebel positions close to the country’s last Opposition bastion in the northwestern province of Idlib.
Gas explosion in coal mine kills 4 in Pak
Islamabad: A gas explosion inside a coal mine Wednesday killed at least four workers and seriously
injured another miner in Pakistan’s Balochistan province.The explosion occurred in the coal-rich Chamalang area of Dukki district, 225 kilometres from the the Capital Quetta.