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Airstrikes target IS de facto capital of Raqqa in Syria
BASSEM MROUE least 15 people, opposition and wounding more than RBSS did not say which by IS supporters said the
ALBERT AJI activists and social media 40. A Raqqa-based activ- country carried out the air- airstrikes were carried out
Associated Press pages loyal to IS said. ist group that reports on IS, strikes while the Observa- by Russian warplanes on
BEIRUT (AP) — Airstrikes hit The Britain-based Syrian known as Raqqa is Being tory said they are believed the outskirts of Raqqa and
several positions of the Is- Observatory for Human Slaughtered Silently, said to be from the U.S.-led co- killed 15 people, includ-
lamic State group in its de Rights said 15 blasts shook warplanes struck IS posi- alition that began target- ing eight children and five
facto capital of Raqqa in the northern and eastern tions on the edge of the ing IS in Syria in September women. It said 25 people
northern Syria on Sunday, outskirts of Raqqa on Sun- city. It had no word on ca- 2014. were wounded in the
killing and wounding at day, killing 32 IS fighters sualties. A Facebook page used airstrikes.q
IS-claimed bombing kills Yemeni governor, 6 guards in Aden
AHMED AL-HAJ thorized to brief the media. Yemenis inspect the scene of a car bomb attack that killed a forces drove the Houthis
Associated Press An IS affiliate claimed the out of Aden earlier this
SANAA, Yemen (AP) — A attack in a statement cir- Yemeni senior official in the southern port city of Aden, Yemen, year. A local al-Qaida affili-
huge explosion killed the culated online by support- ate has exploited the cha-
governor of Yemen’s south- ers, saying the bomb was Sunday, Dec. 6, 2015. (AP Photo/Wael Qubady) os to seize territory in Ye-
ern Aden province and six concealed in a parked car men’s south and east, and
of his bodyguards on Sun- along the convoy’s route. larger conflict, between a Shiite Houthi rebels, who has a growing presence
day, security officials said, The group referred to Saad loose array of pro-govern- control the capital, Sanaa, in Aden. On Saturday,
in an attack that was later as a “tyrant” and warned ment forces backed by and large parts of northern masked gunmen in Aden
claimed by a local Islamic the “heads of the infidels” a Saudi-led coalition and Yemen. Pro-government killed a military intelligence
State affiliate. in Yemen that it would car- official and a judge known
Gov. Gaafar Mohamed ry out “operations to chop for sentencing al-Qaida
Saad was traveling to his off their rotten heads.” militants. No one claimed
office when the explosion IS has claimed a series of those attacks.
struck his convoy in the bombings that killed 159 The United Arab Emirates’
southern port city. Authori- people and wounded 345 minister of state for foreign
ties are investigating the this year in Yemen, ac- affairs, Anwar Gargash,
exact cause of the explo- cording to an AP count. condemned the killing of
sion. The officials spoke on The extremists have been the Aden governor and de-
condition of anonymity able to expand their reach scribed the perpetrators as
because they were not au- in the chaos of Yemen’s “treacherous terrorists.”q
Libya’s rival governments shun UN, sign separate peace deal
RAMI MUSA internationally recognized Libya slid into chaos follow- The U.N.’s unity govern- nized government, casting
Associated Press government representa- ing the 2011 toppling and ment deal, which is aimed doubts on the international
BENGHAZI, Libya (AP) — tive said Sunday. killing of longtime dictator at ending the conflict, was body’s neutrality.
Lawmakers from Libya’s However, it appeared the Moammar Gadhafi. The drafted by its former en- Sunday’s move seemed to
rival parliaments have deal had failed to gain oil-rich country has been voy to Libya, Bernardino splinter the north African
reached a power-sharing broad acceptance by ei- torn between an interna- Leon, who accepted a job country’s governing bod-
agreement in Tunisia, shun- ther side, with representa- tionally recognized gov- last month from the United ies even further, with mem-
ning a U.N.-brokered deal tives from both parliaments ernment in the far east and Arab Emirates. The country bers from both sides com-
to avoid the “foreign in- coming out to slam the Islamist-backed govern- backs some members of ing out to praise or criticize
tervention” tainting it, an newly minted agreement. ment in the capital, Tripoli. the internationally recog- the deal.q
