Large explosions from airstrikes rock Yemeni capital (Raw video)

Smoke rises after a Saudi-led airstrike hit a site where many believe the largest weapons cache in Yemen\’s capital, Sanaa, is located on Monday, April 20, 2015. Powerful explosions rocked the Yemeni capital early Monday morning amid the strike, shattering windows and waking residents up. (AP Photo/Hani Mohammed)

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Somalia’s Al-Shabab says it killed 28 in Kenya

FILE – In this Thursday, Feb. 17, 2011 file photo, hundreds of newly trained al-Shabab fighters perform military exercises in the Lafofe area some 18 km south of Mogadishu, in Somalia. Suspected Islamic extremists from Somalia hijacked a bus at dawn near Mandera in Kenya’s north near the border with Somalia, and killed 28 non-Muslims on board after they had been singled out from the rest of the passengers, police officials said Saturday, Nov. 22, 2014. (AP Photo/Farah Abdi Warsameh, File)

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Colombia halts peace talks after general is taken

This Aug. 15, 2014 photo released by Colombia’s Army press office shows Colombian Army Gen. Ruben Dario Alzate in Colombia. Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos suspended peace talks with the South American nation’s largest rebel group after Alzate was taken captive on Sunday, Nov. 16, 2014. The U.S.-education soldier and two others were intercepted while traveling by motor boat along a remote river in western Colombia. A fourth soldier managed to flee and reported that the captors were members of the 34th front of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC. (AP Photo/Colombian Army press office)

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Syria rebels attack last regime-held northwest city

Illustrative photo of fighters from the al-Qaeda-linked group, al-Nusra Front, near Damascus, Syria, on September 22, 2014 (photo credit: AFP/Rami al-Sayed)

Illustrative photo of fighters from the al-Qaeda-linked group, al-Nusra Front, near Damascus, Syria, on September 22, 2014 (photo credit: AFP/Rami al-Sayed)

Al-Nusra Front, Islamist militias launch ‘unprecedented’ assault on Idlib in bid to oust Assad’s forces

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Obama’s $500 Million Price Tag to Arm, Train Syrian Rebels, Raises Concerns

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Rebels in the Free Syrian Army prepare a locally made cannon for battle on the frontlines of Wadi Al-Dayf camp in the southern Idlib countryside in September of 2014. (PHOTO: REUTERS / KHALIL ASHAWI)

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Ukraine rebel-held Donetsk sees ‘heavy fighting’

Ukrainian servicemen sit in an armoured personnel carrier (APC) near the eastern Ukrainian city of Slavyansk, in the region of Donetsk, on 5 August 2014.

Ukrainian government forces are trying to recapture the Donetsk and Luhansk rebel strongholds.

Heavy fighting has erupted in a suburb of the rebel stronghold of Donetsk, in eastern Ukraine, local officials say.

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‘Jihadists control all of Syria’s main oilfields’

An image made available by Jihadist media outlet al-Itisam Media on June 29, 2014, allegedly shows members of the IS (Islamic State), including military leader and Georgian native Abu Omar al-Shishani (Tarkhan Batirashvili) (L) and Sheikh Abu Mohammed al-Adnani (C), whose picture was blurred by the source to protect his identity, speaking at an unknown location between the Iraqi Nineveh province and the Syrian town of Al-Hasakah. (AFP photo/HO/Al-Itisam Media)

An image made available by Jihadist media outlet al-Itisam Media on June 29, 2014, allegedly shows members of the IS (Islamic State), including military leader and Georgian native Abu Omar al-Shishani (Tarkhan Batirashvili) (L) and Sheikh Abu Mohammed al-Adnani (C), whose picture was blurred by the source to protect his identity, speaking at an unknown location between the Iraqi Nineveh province and the Syrian town of Al-Hasakah.    (AFP photo/HO/Al-Itisam Media)

After declaring caliphate, ISIL said to seize desert reservoirs from rebel groups and rival Islamist fighters

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