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The Global Coalition against Daesh has reported that 94 operations have been conducted against ISIS in Iraq in Syria so far this year, resulting in the deaths of 23 militants and the arrests of over 60 others. IRAQ: The Coalition has reported that since the start of the year, Iraqi security forces have carried out 66 counter-ISIS operations, which killed 16...

A senior commander in the Kurdish People's Defense Units (YPG) was reportedly killed by an IED explosion against his vehicle on April 15 in the Kurdish-controlled Hasakah area of northern Syria. Heval Sores was a high-value target amongst other senior leaders of the group which Ankara regards as organically and operationally connected to the Kurdistan Worker's Party (PKK), the latter...

As this publication reported on yesterday, an unofficially attributed Israeli airstrike against the Iranian embassy in Damascus, Syria resulted in the death of seven persons including several Iranian diplomats and most notably, IRGC Brigadier General Mohammad Reza Zahedi. Further on in the afternoon, several other high ranking IRGC members were reported killed including Deputy of General Zahedi, Sardar Haji...

Update (1213 EST): Fars News Agency, the media wing of the IRGC has confirmed the death of Mohammad Reza Zahedi. https://twitter.com/FarsNews_Agency/status/1774829249423097860 Update (1142 EST): SOHR has updated the casualty number to eight killed. Update (1133 EST): Senior IRGC official Mohammad Reza Zahedi was reportedly killed in this strike which targeted the Consular section of the Iranian embassy. He previously commanded its Air Force and Ground...

At approximately 1730 EST, initial reports indicated that a car exploded in the central market of Azaz, Syria, North of Aleppo. https://twitter.com/thiqanewsagency/status/1774189219226828987?s=46&t=fwloThPnqgTH71QlDeR_hA The casualty numbers varied widely from eyewitnesses. However, by 1800 EST, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) published an official death toll at 6 and reported 20 wounded. However, eyewitnesses have still maintained that the death toll rests...