Globe Trotting

Yemen Shia rebels kill 3 Saudi soldiers 

Riyadh: Saudi Arabia says Yemen’s Shia rebels have launched two separate attacks along the kingdom’s border, killing three Saudi soldiers.

The last night attacks reflect how despite three months of Saudi-led airstrikes targeting the rebels known as Houthis, the rebels are 

still capable of launching deadly attacks along the kingdom’s border.

US military jet crashes in Arizona: officials

Washington: A US military plane has crashed in Arizona, reportedly rupturing a gas line and sparking a large fire, officials said. Emergency crews rushed to the site of the crash about eight miles (13 kilometres) north of Douglas, Arizona near the border with Mexico, local fire officials said on Wednesday.

Attacks in Baghdad,  neighbourhood kill 8

Baghdad: Iraqi officials say attacks in Baghdad and town south of the Iraqi capital have killed at least eight people. A police officer says a car bomb ripped through a commercial area in Baghdad’s northern neighbourhood of Shaab on Thursday, killing six civilians and wounding 16. He says two women were among the dead.

Qaeda: US strike killed American spokesman

Dubai: Al-Qaeda has confirmed that a US drone strike earlier this year killed its English-language spokesman, a California native known as Azzam the American, SITE Intelligence Group reported on Thursday. 

Turkey rejects claims ISIS raided Kobane 

Ankara: Turkey rejected as “black propaganda” claims that Islamic State (ISIS) militants crossed from Turkey on Thursday to carry out a deadly bombing on the Syrian town of Kobane. ISIS extremists killed 12 civilians in a suicide car bomb near the Turkish border crossing adjacent to Kobane, according to a monitoring group. 

Israel frees prominent Hamas leader 

Jerusalem: Israel on Thursday released a prominent Hamas leader, Hassan Yusef, a year after his arrest along with hundreds of others following the killing of three Israeli teenagers. Yusef was elected to the Palestinian parliament in 2006 while in Israeli custody.