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"As soon as Bab al-Hawa and Bab al-Salameh are taken, you can consider Idlib fallen."
In al-Bab, it trained some 2,000 Syrian security, including 100 women, to police checkpoints in al-Bab.
Image 22 of 2000 AL-BAB, Syria – A newly paved road links the Turkish town of Cobanbey to its Syrian sister, al-Bab, across the border.
"Saudi Arabia is temporarily halting all oil shipments through Bab al-Mandeb strait immediately until the situation becomes clearer and the maritime transit through Bab al-Mandeb is safe," he said.
AL-BAB, Syria/BEIRUT/ANKARA (Reuters) - Children returning to school in the northern Syrian city of al-Bab were handed a new textbook this term: "Türkçe Öğreniyorum" - "I am learning Turkish".
"Saudi Arabia is temporarily halting all oil shipments through Bab al-Mandeb Strait immediately until the situation becomes clearer and the maritime transit through Bab al-Mandeb is safe," the minister said.
Activists with the Aleppo Media Center said the regime "was able to capture the neighborhood of Tareeq al-Bab after capturing al-Muwasalt neighborhood, as well as al-Shaar, Karm al-Jabal and several neighborhoods in the old city of Aleppo such as Bab al-Hadeed, Agheour, Bab al-Nasser, al-Bayada and Qadi Askar" after rebel forces withdrew.
Mr. Stein of the Atlantic Council called the arrangement "Aleppo for Al Bab": Russia and Mr. Assad would take Aleppo, while Turkish-allied militias would take the strategically located town of Al Bab.
The idea came from one of Bab Aldonia's regular customers.
Houthi rebels from reaching the crucial Bab el Mandeb Strait.
Al Bab is a Syrian city in the Aleppo governorate.
"They withdraw into areas where there are really narrow streets - Bab al-Baydh, Bab al-Jadeed, al-Makkawi, Farouq al-Qadeem, Farouq al-Jadeed," Thanoun said, listing quarters close to the al-Nuri mosque.
Russian planes killed three Turkish soldiers near al Bab this week.
"We are practicing this at Bab al-Mandeb Strait," he added.
The country is across the Bab al-Mandab Strait from Yemen.
The jihadists retreated north and west, towards Jarabulus and al-Bab.
Urban warfare around al-Bab is already taking a heavier toll.
Manbij lies some 50 km (30 miles) east of al-Bab.
Hawk: Now he says I'm from Farouq, not from Bab Sinjar.
That could offset a bottleneck caused by Bab al-Mandeb's closure.
Last month, Russian fighters mistakenly bombed Turkish soldiers near Al Bab.
It is in fact a picture of the shrine of Bab. Apologies.
Syrian soaps like "Bab Al-Hara" ("The Neighbourhood Gate") are hugely successful.
The rebels seized at least two villages west of al-Bab last week.
In recent weeks, the forces have been besieging the town of al-Bab.
But there was a most jealous human,By the name of Bab Aganoush.
His Bab al-Aziziya compound has been bulldozed into a giant rubbish dump.
Permission was granted by the opposition-run council in al-Bab, Buwaydani said.
After passing the Bab el Mandeb strait, the road stretches along the seashore.
Turkey-backed rebels had besieged the town of al-Bab in early December.
American officials, who asked not to be identified because they were discussing intelligence, said that Russian airstrikes in the Al Bab area began at the end of December, and that Russian aircraft were flying near Al Bab as recently as Friday.
As you know it is under siege in Mosul, in Raqqah and al-Bab.
Al-Bab was bombed by US, Russian and Turkish aircraft this month, CNN reported.
Rebel officials said the clash took place in a village southwest of al-Bab.
The explosions took place at the Bab al-Saghir Cemetery in the Syrian capital.
BAB: I went to Europe in 1958, and rode all around on a Lambretta.
In reality they are in Bab al-Hawa and in two or three villages.
Bab al-Hawa is located in Idlib, the site of attacks by regime forces.
He added that Islamic State has been putting up fierce resistance near al-Bab.
On Saturday, the regime advanced on the Tariq al-Bab and al-Khaterji districts.
But its role has been mainly to patrol Bab al-Mandab with naval vessels.
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"We are obliged to, we will go there," he said after mentioning al Bab.
Both the government and rebel sides view Al Bab as a strategically important prize.
Only 26 booksellers remain in Bab Doukkala on the edge of the old city.
The ArtBahrain fair changed its name to Art Bahrain Across Borders (or Art BAB).
" A second rebel official, a commander in the al-Bab area, added: "They opened fire.
In 1844 a merchant who called himself "the Bab" ("the Gate") began preaching in Persia.
Marea is a town in Turkey-backed rebel territory on the way to al-Bab.
The bab on navigation forced oil and petrol retailers to seek alternative ways of transportation.
"We have most of what we need," a man named Mustafa al Bab told us.
"The Bab-el-Mandeb is open for business as far as we're concerned," Votel declared.
The Americans have said they are not taking part in the fight for Al Bab.
But over the years, we grew bolder and started going to places like Bab Sharqi.
In the newly retaken Bab al-Hadid neighborhood, a man greeted a pro-government fighter.
Also planned is M Bab, a 32,000-square-foot immersive multimedia cultural center and theater.
Syrians who had neither were given a choice of return through the nearby Bab al-Salam or Bab al-Hawa border crossings, which lead directly into areas held by opposition groups, including hardline Islamist factions, which have been ravaged by regular airstrikes and fighting.
AL-BAB, Syria (Reuters) - Syrian rebels who drove Islamic State from the town of al-Bab in northwest Syria this year discovered an extensive network of tunnels dug by militants as part of their defenses, a tactic that has slowed the military campaign against them.
BAB: I started surfing when I was in seventh or eighth grade at the Oceanside Pier.
Whisper to a scream Cairo's Bab Aldonia is a little bookstore making a lot of noise.
Only 428 trucks passed through Bab al-Salama in the first eight months of this year.
Slightly southeast of there, the regime was advancing on ISIS in the town of Al Bab.
The ship was operating in the southern Red Sea, north of Bab el Mandeb, a strait.
But as the antagonists get closer to Al Bab, the encirclement could become a flash point.
It said that Turkish air strikes in the area had killed seven people in al-Bab.
The Syrian Army's occupation of the southern approach to Al Bab gives it control of "the only and last main road used by the jihadists between Al Bab and Raqqa," said the Syrian Observatory, which bases its reporting on a network of contacts on the ground.
A new $17-million hospital financed by the Turkish Health Ministry opens this month in al-Bab.
Is there a clue to be found in the fact that your name anagrams to "Yeasty Bab"?
Which group gained control of al-Bab, a town to the south, would be critical, he said.
Yemen, moreover, dominates the Bab al-Mandab strait, a choke-point for ships using the Suez canal.
The Euphrates Shield operation at one point had Russian air support in the fight for al-Bab.
Both incidents took place around the Bab al-Mandab strait, one of the world's busiest shipping routes.
Explaining the decision, Karaz noted that two-thirds of al-Bab citizens had sought refuge in Turkey.
Video footage showed thousands of people massing at the Bab al-Salam crossing on the Turkish border.
Bab al-Mandeb is 29 km (18 miles) wide, making hundreds of ships potentially an easy target.
It lies close to the Bab al-Mandab shipping lane through which much of the world's oil passes.
Three Turkish soldiers were killed and 11 others wounded in the airstrike near the city of al-Bab.
They now plan to march on al-Bab, where the fighting is expected to be much more intense.
The two countries have since repaired relations and have been coordinating efforts against Islamic State in al-Bab.
Darwish appeared to be referring to the highway between Manbij and Islamic State-held al-Bab, further west.
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Hundreds of Arab and Turkmen fighters seized at least two villages west of al-Bab, the rebels said.
The Observatory said explosions triggered by Islamic State had caused casualties in a village close to al-Bab.
Taxes imposed on goods passing through Bab al-Hawa also provide a lucrative source of revenue for Ahrar.
Partner countries would be responsible for escorting ships in the Strait of Hormuz and the Bab al-Mandab.
Iran would wield far greater influence than Somali pirates if it were allowed to threaten Bab-el-Mandeb.
But the Saudis stopped all oil shipments through the nearby Bab El-Mandeb strait, just to the south.
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Al-Mokha lies close to the Bab al-Mandab strait through which much of the world's oil passes.
The Sweidans want to move out of the camp and are looking for a home in al-Bab.
The Bab al-Mandab is a waterway through which nearly 4 million barrels of oil are shipped daily.
Mayssa and her family went back to the Bab-Jadid neighborhood in the old part of the city.
BAB: In my cruising around I ran into Ed Keinholz, who was up in Echo Park at the time.
BAB: I would go back and forth with college, dropping out and trying to start again, always with pottery.
The bombing took place in Al-Sakhour and Al-Bab neighborhoods of the northern Syrian city, the observatory reported.
Coalition forces also conducted eight airstrikes in the al-Bab region, destroying two defense positions and two armed vehicles.
The Bab al-Mandab is a strategic waterway through which nearly 4 million barrels of oil are shipped daily.
On Thursday morning, Turkish troops, backed by Syrian Arab fighters, had almost reached Al Bab, according to rebel commanders.
"You could see it as a means to survival," drama graduate Fadi explains at a bar in Bab Sharqi.
Although al-Bab is held by ISIS, the attack was reportedly carried out to stop people fleeing the town.
His family, along with brothers and cousins, arrived in the informal camp near Bab al-Hawa three days ago.
The Red Sea port near the Bab al-Mandab strait is under the control of Yemen's armed Houthi movement.
Along the Bab Al Siq are three massive "Djinn" blocks, which are square monuments carved out of solid sandstone.
Since 2015, 40 Houthi naval attacks have been documented in the Bab Al-Mandeb Strait and the Red Sea.
At a nearby camp in al Bab, volunteers have converted a school bus into the Bus of Knowledge classroom.
Fourth, Turkey wants to take back the Islamic State-controlled town of Al Bab before the Syrian Kurds do.
Turkey said its forces and allied rebels have nearly completed its seizure of Al Bab, an Islamic State stronghold.
They are now at the gates of the town of al-Bab, and the stage is set for confrontation.
Bab al-Hawa, a major commercial and civilian gateway into rebel-held Idlib, is controlled by Ahrar al-Sham.
In al-Bab, Turkish and Syrian flags line the streets, and signs on government buildings are in Arabic and Turkish.
The Bab al-Mandeb strait is only 18 miles (29 km) wide, making hundreds of ships potentially an easy target.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said 11 were injured in Bab Touma and seven elsewhere in the Old City.
Al-Bab is of particular strategic importance to Turkey because Kurdish-dominated militias have also been pushing to seize it.
Al-Bab, held by Islamic State, lies on the southern edge of what Ankara sees as its potential buffer zone.
Al-Bab was ISIS' last significant holdout between the northern countryside of Aleppo and Raqqa, the group's de facto capital.
They have been battling to capture al-Bab since December, but escalated their attack this week, seizing the city's outskirts.
The ministry said the pilgrims were visiting "holy shrines" at Bab al-Saghir, one of Syria's largest and oldest cemeteries.
Two years later, al Qaeda hit a French tanker in the Gulf of Aden, south of the Bab al-Mandab.
Turkish-backed forces are now besieging al-Bab, the last urban stronghold of Islamic State in the northern Aleppo countryside.
Turkey has said progress by its rebel allies in al-Bab has been slowed by efforts to avoid civilian casualties.
They have reached the edge of town, only a few kilometers away from the main Bab al Salam border crossing.
A witness told Reuters there were at least six dead in the restaurant in the Bab Touma district of Damascus.
"Right now the question is whether Russia will allow Turkey to seize al-Bab," said the Muntasir Billah Brigade official.
It was not clear where the convoy was heading after passing into Syria through the Bab al-Hawa border crossing.
Warplanes destroyed 85 Islamic State targets in the areas of al-Bab, Tadif, Kabbasin and Bzagah, including buildings and vehicles.
Khalil and Mariam sit side by side on a car parked in Bab al-Louq, smoking and watching, legs touching.
"With our help, rebels have closed in on al-Bab," Cavusoglu said in comments published on state broadcaster TRT's website.
But as the offensive moves towards al-Bab, 35 km (22 miles) northeast of Aleppo, the battle may get harder.
"I would love to visit Bab al-Sharji," she said, referring to an old neighborhood near where her aunt lived.
In recent weeks Turkish troops, supported by Syrian rebels, have been besieging the Islamic State-controlled town of al-Bab.
The U.S.-led coalition has been reluctant to provide support to NATO member Turkey for its advance toward al-Bab.
The attack targeted Turkey-backed rebels who have been besieging the Islamic State-controlled town of al-Bab for days.
ADNOC was expected to hold 60 percent of the Bab sour gas project, while Shell would have held 40 percent.
In but one example of the chaos in Syria, consider the fighting around the city of Al Bab in 2016.
They have reached the edge of town, only a few kilometres away from the main Bab al Salam border crossing.
Government forces, by contrast, want to stop the rebel advance at Al Bab to limit the size of the zone.
As you walk towards the center of the city, the "Bab Al Siq," or gateway road, is flanked by tombs.
Authorities are planning to tear down the Bab Doukkala souk and replace it with a public garden, according to locals.
But it remains unclear if all rebel forces backed by Turkey in the Al Bab siege have accepted those terms.
But that ambition could cause difficulties with Moscow, as al-Bab lies close to the front lines of Assad's allies.
A crisis in the Bab el-Mandeb would trigger greater fears over incidents in Hormuz and send oil prices upward.
In Yemen, Iran-backed Houthi rebels operate near the Red Sea's Bab el-Mandeb strait, a vital route for oil supplies.
Bahais consider one of the followers of the Bab—Baha'u'llah—to be this prophet, and the official founder of their religion.
Her family elected to use the Bab al-Salam gate, which links the Turkish town of Kilis with Azaz in Syria.
A Kuwaiti official said 90 percent of Kuwaiti oil shipments go to Asia and do not pass through Bab al-Mandeb.
Reporting by Ali Kucukgocmen, Sarah Dadouch and Khalil Ashawi in al-Bab in Syria; editing by Grant McCool and Leslie Adler
Sources said Turkish-backed rebel reinforcements had entered Syria via the Bab al-Hawa crossing in support of Ahrar al-Sham.
The group said the explosion took place at the bottom of a building that housed ammunition in Bab al-Hawa Square.
Near Bab al-Nasr, one of the historic gates into the Old City, few of the traders have reopened their stalls.
The fallen commandos were memorialized in a haunting poem, "Bab al-Wad," written in Hebrew by Mr. Gouri in the 1950s.
Here, what is believed to be the charred body of a rebel fighter can be seen in retaken Bab al-Hadid.
The government has advanced to within a few kilometers (miles) of the IS-held town of al-Bab in Aleppo province.
Both pro- and anti-government forces expect to take advantage, vowing to seize Al Bab within days, fighters and supporters say.
Otherwise, they said, the rebels — who have pressed Al Bab on three sides for months — would have seized it long ago.
The 56,000-square-metre Bab al-Azab area lies within the citadel's walls behind the ornate Azab gate, built in 1754.
That possibility has elevated the importance of Al Bab to all sides in the conflict, which is nearly six years old.
Most exports from the Gulf that transit the Suez Canal and the SUMED Pipeline also pass through Bab al-Mandeb strait.
Below are facts about region's shipping routes: BAB AL-MANDEB Any move to block the Bab al-Mandeb, the narrow waterway between the coasts of Yemen and Africa at the southern end of the Red Sea, would virtually halt oil shipments through Egypt's Suez Canal or the SUMED crude pipeline that link the Red Sea and Mediterranean.
Another 21 were injured in the shelling of the Bab Touma and al-Shaghour districts of the old city, the source said.
Saleh and his family had walked for two hours from their home in the Bab Al-Baidh district of Mosul's old city.
The group's last significant holdout north of Raqqa -- the town of al Bab -- is remorselessly bombed by US, Russian and Turkish aircraft.
When ISIS first went into Al Bab, an Egyptian commander took AlShurqat's place in the front during the Friday prayers, said Sarheel.
Erdogan in November forecast that al-Bab would fall quickly, and said last week Islamic State was suffering "serious blood losses" there.
A Syrian child looks out from a tent camp near the Bab al-Salam border crossing with Turkey, in Syria, Saturday, Feb.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the strikes also hit the Sheikh Faris, Bab al-Nairab, Qadi Askar and Qaterji districts.
It is near the Bab al-Mandab strait, a strategic waterway through which nearly 4 million barrels of oil are shipped daily.
Nearly four million barrels of oil are shipped daily through the Bab al-Mandab gateway to Europe, the United States and Asia.
The fate of al-Bab, an Islamic State-held city around 40 km (25 miles) northeast of Aleppo, is also a factor.
Several sources said there had been an understanding between Ankara and Moscow that rebels could leave Aleppo to help take al-Bab.
The Pentagon said earlier this month that the initiative would also extend to the Bab al-Mandab, another strategic waterway off Yemen.
Britain has a base in Oman and China has a military base in Djibouti, which lies off the Bab al-Mandab strait.
The latest incident occurred near the city of al-Bab, which Free Syrian Army (FSA) rebels captured last week from Islamic State.
"Yeah, sometimes—like when the shelling happens near Bab Sharqi, and our parents start calling to make sure we're safe," he explains.
"They did not differentiate between civilians and others," he told Reuters from a village near the Bab al-Hawa crossing with Turkey.
The Bab sour joint venture envisaged the construction of a 1 billion cubic feet sour gas processing plant for domestic market consumption.
The ministry is in a densely populated area, a World Heritage site known as Bab al-Yemen, which has been targeted before.
To the east of Al Bab, a mix of Kurdish and Arab militias have been advancing in an attempt to encircle Raqqa.
Its only base abroad is at Djibouti's Bab al-Mandab Strait—the waterway whose closure would hurt China more than anywhere else.
Government and rebel forces are closing in from different directions on Al Bab, one of the Islamic State's last enclaves in Syria.
But it has become bogged down near Al Bab, the last major town west of Raqqa still held by the Islamic State.
The pipeline mainly transports crude from the kingdom's eastern fields to the port of Yanbu, which lies north of Bab al-Mandeb.
Its name in various tongues has always been a variation on portal, including Bab al-Abwab, or Gate of all Gates, in Arabic.
Mohammed ElSheikh, 25, a humanitarian worker in al-Bab, said he expects Turkey&aposs control of northern Syria to last for a decade.
Saudi crude exports through Bab al-Mandeb are estimated at around 500,000-700,000 barrels per day (bpd), according to analysts and Reuters data.
It said in a statement that the incident had taken place near the Islamic State-held city of al-Bab in northern Syria.
On Friday, a suicide car bombing near the northern town of al-Bab, close to Syria's border with Turkey, also left dozens dead.
Thirty-three of those killed in the blast have been identified, said Barry Abdullatif, founder of media activist group al-Bab City Coordination.
The twin blasts hit buses of Iraqi pilgrims at the Bab al-Saghir cemetery in Damascus, Iraqi Foreign Ministry spokesman Ahmed Jamal said.
Syrian regime forces fire toward Islamic State jihadists south of the town of Al-Bab in the northern province of Aleppo on Jan.
Al-Bab is located 40 km (25 miles) northeast of Aleppo, where Assad defeated rebels in December, his biggest victory of the war.
Between 30,000 and 75,000 Syrians managed to escape and flee to Turkey's Bab al-Salam border crossing, only to find the gates closed.
The Turkish-backed forces would now continue their advance towards the Islamic State-held town of al-Bab, southeast of Dabiq, he said.
The Bab al Salam border crossing with Turkey was a main trucking gateway from Europe via Syria to the Gulf before the war.
A diplomatic source estimated as many as 70,000 people had massed in Algiers, including a rally at Bab Ezzouar university, the country's biggest.
It said Turkish warplanes on Sunday destroyed 52 Islamic State targets in the area of al-Bab, which is controlled by the jihadists.
The U.S. has conducted four airstrikes near Al-Bab, Syria, in support of a Turkish offensive against ISIS, a military official said Tuesday.
The Bab al-Mandab is a strategic waterway in the Red Sea through which nearly 4 million barrels of oil are shipped daily.
A local resident told Reuters Tahrir al-Sham had taken control of the village of Aqarbat around 5 km from Bab al-Hawa.
A rebel source said an initial group of around 150 fighters from the Turkey-backed Euphrates Shield operation had entered Bab al-Hawa.
Turkish administrators are working alongside Syrians at the Hikmeh Hospital in al-Bab, said Ahmad Aabo, a Syrian medical official in the city.
The group was pushed to the east, leaving ISIS in control only of a strip of northeastern Aleppo Province anchored by Al Bab.
ADNOC also said it would upgrade operations at its onshore Bab field, increasing production capacity to 450,000 bpd by 2020 from 420,000 bpd.
Of a total of 66,000 displaced from Ghouta to northern Syria, about 20,000 are in al-Bab and other towns controlled by Turkey.
But the number of night spots are on the rise, especially in Bab Sharqi—an area in the eastern part of the city.
At La Marionette bar in Bab Sharqi, I meet Yosuf, 32, who has invested in—and designed—several bars and cafes in Damascus.
Shaar Hagai, originally Bab al-Wad in Arabic, meaning Gate of the Valley, is along the main highway connecting Tel Aviv and Jerusalem.
Turkey began the operation at Al Bab, east of Aleppo, without coordinating with the United States and without the benefit of American airstrikes.
The UN on Wednesday condemned the attack on the vessel and said it took threats to shipping around Bab al-Mandeb "extremely seriously".
"The operation to control al Bab, which is being besieged under the Euphrates Shield Operation, is ongoing," the army said in a statement.
It took more than three months of fighting for the Turkish-led forces to take al-Bab district, killing more than 0003 Turkish soldiers.
ANKARA (Reuters) - Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said on Friday that Turkey's operation to capture the northern Syrian town of al-Bab was almost complete.
There were multiple reports Thursday that Turkish-backed Free Syrian Army rebels had pushed ISIS out of al-Bab, near the Turkey-Syria border.
Turkey's army cleared IS from strongholds overlooking the border in early September, and fighting continues near al-Bab, a town north-east of Aleppo.
Turkish government and Syrian rebel sources said on Wednesday insurgents backed by Turkey's military had taken the outskirts of al-Bab, northeast of Aleppo.
If al-Bab falls, Ankara would strengthen its sway over an area of northern Syria where it has created a de facto buffer zone.
Activists offered differing accounts of how many children were killed in Thursday's airstrike, which reportedly occurred in the rebel-held Bab al-Nayrab neighborhood.
A senior Syrian rebel official said Adnani was most probably killed in the Islamic State-held city of al-Bab in an air strike.
"The Bab al-Mandab is a vital artery for shipping," said Gavin Simmonds, security and commercial policy director with the UK Chamber of Shipping.
The Bab joint venture envisaged building a sour gas processing plant that would yield 1 billion cubic feet per day, aimed at domestic consumption.
Nearly 4 million barrels of oil are shipped daily through the Bab al-Mandab to Europe, the United states and Asia plus commercial goods.
Fighters would initially join Turkey's effort to drive Islamic State from the city of al-Bab, around 40 km northeast of Aleppo, he said.
The Russian statement said that the airstrike had been carried out near the village of Maarat Umm Hawsh, about 16 miles from Al Bab.
The Turkish troops were moving toward Al Bab, a northern city held by the Islamic State, near the border with Turkey, the military said.
Al-Bab is a major target in the "Euphrates Shield" operation to push the jihadists away from the Syrian side of the Turkish border.
A diplomatic source estimated that as many as 70,000 people had massed in Algiers, including a rally at Bab Ezzouar university, the country's biggest.
The Pentagon later confirmed that coalition forces had targeted al-Adnani in an airstrike in Al-Bab, a Syrian city in the Aleppo governorate.
"Around Al Bab, all the forces that are acting in Syria have converged literally within hand-grenade range of one another," General Townsend said.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a war monitor, reported fierce clashes at the southwestern edges of al-Bab, with some rebel advances there.
Saudi Arabia and Iran are in a three-year-old proxy war in Yemen, which lies on the eastern side of Bab al-Mandeb.
Four years later, his two sons were killed after they attacked Bab al-Azizya, Qaddafi's bunker residence in Tripoli, in a failed coup attempt.
Esmer, the Turkish official, oversaw the formation of a 21-member governing body in al-Bab, which employs nearly 150 staff, most paid by Turkey.
Bab al-Saghir is a sacred cemetery in the southern section of the old city where descendants and companions of the Prophet Mohammed are buried.
The air strike had completely destroyed a four-storey apartment block where his relatives had been living in the Tariq al-Bab neighborhood, he said.
The vital rebel supply line from Aleppo City up to the Bab al-Salameh border crossing with Turkey has now been cut by the regime.
He succumbed to injuries sustained in Al-Bab, a town 15 miles northeast of Aleppo and 20 miles from the Turkish border, the official said.
The Turkish campaign, which also aims to prevent further expansion of YPG control, has been encountering fierce Islamic State resistance in al-Bab since December.
Russian and Syrian regime aircraft on Tuesday bombed villages southeast of Syrian city al-Bab that they thought were held by ISIS, Army Lt. Gen.
Last year, Saudi Arabia paused oil shipments through Bab al-Mandeb for more than a week after the Houthis attacked two ships in the waterway.
The U.S. official said the strike targeted a vehicle in the town of al-Bab in Syria but declined to say whether Adnani was killed.
In a statement on Twitter, the Defence Ministry said the YPG had detonated the car bomb in the Al-Bab bus terminal, killing 10 people.
The rebels said their next step was advancing towards the Islamic State-held city of al Bab, south of al Rai and northeast of Aleppo.
Sixty-eight Islamic State militants have been "neutralized" in fighting and air strikes near al-Bab since Friday night, the military said in a statement.
ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Turkish warplanes pounded 12 Islamic State targets in the al-Bab region of northern Syria on Wednesday, killing 23 militants, the military said.
Four months into its operation in Syria, the Turkish army and the rebels it backs are besieging the Islamic State-held town of al-Bab.
At the same time, government forces have escorted hundreds of the displaced back to recently retaken districts, such as the Bab al-Hadid district below.
Talal Muhammad, a father of four, has run a small shop in the Old City's Bab al Bedh district selling dairy goods for 30 years.
From there, many ships have to pass through Bab al-Mandeb to get to the Suez Canal towards Europe and the SUMED pipeline in Egypt.
But on Thursday, artillery battles broke out between the pro- and anti-government forces, according to fighters on the ground in the Al Bab area.
The Syrian state news service, SANA, said militants set off two explosive charges near the Bab al-Saghir cemetery, just south of the Old City.
Iraq's military said it had captured Bab Sinjar, north of the historic, densely-populated district where the militants launched their cross-border "caliphate" in 2014.
By contrast, Turkish-backed factions have struggled to eradicate stubborn ISIS resistance in and around al Bab further north and remain a long way from Raqqa.
Saudi Arabia announced it was halting oil shipments through the Red Sea "until the situation becomes clearer and maritime transition through Bab al-Mandeb is safe".
The Turkish army and Syrian rebel groups it supports have been fighting IS in a separate campaign around al-Bab, northeast of the city of Aleppo.
ISTANBUL (Reuters) - There is no joint operation between Turkey and Russia against Islamic State in Syria's al-Bab, Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said on Thursday.
A successful advance north could cut Islamic State off from the Turkish border, while a thrust west could threaten al-Bab, an important Islamic State stronghold.
Syrian government forces have staged a rapid advance of their own towards al-Bab in the last two weeks, risking a confrontation with the Turkish army.
"Today the Russian and Turkish air forces are conducting their first joint air operation to strike Islamic State in the suburbs of al-Bab," Rudskoi said.
Though small in both population and size, Djibouti's position on the tip of the Horn of Africa offers strategic access to the Bab el-Mandeb Strait.
At the Bab Antakia souk, Heitham Ghanam, a middle-aged trader in women's fashion accessories, was clearing rubble from his shop with his wife and daughter.
Now the Kurds have set their sights on al-Bab, which would allow them to link up the eastern and western portions of Rojava (see map).
The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said that 900 Kurdish civilians had been detained near Al Bab, a town held by the Islamic State.
The United Nations check ships heading to Hodeidah in Djibouti while passing through the Bab al-Mandab Strait, but Hadi's government says the system was flawed.
Rebels supported by Turkish jets, armour and special forces are attempting to capture al-Bab from Islamic State after reaching its northern outskirts a month ago.
However, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitoring group said that more than half of al-Bab was still under IS control, and that battles continued.
The clashes left several cars burning in the streets between the Zawiyat Addahmani area and Bab Azizziya before the capital later returned to calm, witnesses said.
Those Turkish-backed rebel forces will now advance on the Islamic State-held town of Al Bab, southeast of Dabiq, said Ibrahim Kalin, Mr. Erdogan's spokesman.
Bab al-Hawa was a major international crossing before the crisis and handled billions of dollars of overland trade from Europe to the Gulf through Syria.
" During last week's Jewish holiday of Sukkot, hundreds of Israelis came to Shaar Hagai to support the protesters, sitting in circles to sing "Bab al-Wad.
Every day, a bus takes up to a dozen cancer patients from the Bab Al Hawa Hospital, the largest in opposition-held Syria, across to Turkey.
In late August, Adnani left the apartment and sped west in an unmarked sedan to rally his forces in al-Bab, the city closest to Manbij.
Allowing pro-government forces to occupy Al Bab could be humiliating for the rebels before a new round of peace talks scheduled to start on Feb.
The Islamic State has suffered the loss of Al Bab in northern Syria, which fell to Turkish forces and Turkish-backed Syrian militias on Feb. 23.
The price of a bag of flour has skyrocketed to 150,000 Iraqi dinars, or about $130, said a 41-year-old resident of Bab al-Tob.
Among them was Amriki himself, who was killed along with his wife on April 22, 210, when a bomb flattened their apartment in Al Bab, Syria.
If the Islamic State is defeated in Al Bab, it will lose its last piece of territory in Aleppo Province, where it once held large areas.
"Today, Russian and Turkish Air Forces are carrying out their first joint air operation against the Islamic State in the suburbs of Al Bab," Lt. Gen.
In recent days, the United States has also carried out airstrikes near Al Bab to help the Turkish forces that are struggling to take the town.
Overseeing the beehive is a veteran Turkish provincial official, Senol Esmer, deputy governor of the Turkish city of Gaziantep, sent here to direct al-Bab&aposs development.
Al-Bab&aposs strategic location allowed Turkey earlier this year to uproot the YPG from its westernmost stronghold Afrin, thwarting a contiguous Kurdish entity along the border.
Meanwhile, the pro-opposition Orient TV broadcast footage of an earlier convoy arriving in al-Bab, a town in northern Syria controlled by Turkish-backed rebel groups.
In 2017, the African nation of Djibouti, positioned at another geostrategic choke-point, the strait of Bab al-Mandeb, became home to China's first overseas military base.
Bab al-Saghir is a sacred cemetery in the southern section of the old city in Damascus where descendants and companions of the Prophet Mohammed are buried.
Nearly 4 million barrels of oil are shipped daily to Europe, the United States and Asia via the Bab al-Mandab, as well as other commercial goods.
ANKARA (Reuters) - Turkey's military said Russian warplanes had carried out air strikes on Tuesday on Islamic State targets south of Syria's al-Bab in coordination with Turkey.
On two occasions this week missiles were fired from Houthi-held territory at an American destroyer in the Bab al-Mandab strait, though none hit the ship.
Turkey sent a convoy of about 30 military vehicles into rebel-held northwest Syria through the Bab al-Hawa crossing in Idlib, rebels and a witness said.
The raids struck the militant groups' arms depots, command points and training camps in the cities of Serakab, Al-Bab, Aleppo and Deir Ezzor, the ministry said.
Bab al-Hawa is the only official border crossing connecting Turkey to the Idlib region, where an estimated 2.1 million people are in need of humanitarian assistance.
The Bab al-Salama border crossing from Turkey into Aleppo province, also used by USAID partners for humanitarian shipments, will not be impacted, the U.S. official said.
The Houthis attacked two tankers in the Bab al-Mandeb strait a day earlier, prompting Saudi Arabia to suspend oil shipments through the strategic Red Sea lane.
Pence also expressed his condolences for the death of Turkish soldiers fighting against Islamic State in the northern Syrian city of al-Bab, the Turkish statement said.
Townsend said Russian and Syrian aircraft bombed positions held by the U.S.-backed Syrian Arab Coalition near the Syrian town of al Bab on Tuesday, inflicting casualties.
The army's gains follow a push to the south and east of the city of al-Bab, which was captured by Turkish-backed rebels late last month.
Nearly four million barrels of oil are shipped daily to Europe, the United States and Asia via the Bab al-Mandab, as well as other commercial goods.
Slotkin also said that a liaison team was in talks with Turkey about helping its forces near al-Bab in Syria and has already provided surveillance support.
Russian and Syrian regime aircraft on Tuesday bombed villages southeast of Syrian city al-Bab that they thought were held by ISIS, Townsend said during the briefing.
Assad's forces followed up on a rebel withdrawal from the Old City by also seizing the Bab al Nayrab, Al Maadi, and Salhin areas in eastern Aleppo.
The United States Maritime Administration had warned on Thursday of heightened threats from Iran in the Red Sea, the Bab el-Mandeb Strait and the Persian Gulf.
In the distance, the Bab al-Mandeb Strait, which separates the Horn of Africa from the Arabian Peninsula, glimmers in shades of dark blue, turquoise, and green.
DUBAI (Reuters) - Top oil exporter Saudi Arabia said on Saturday it has resumed all oil shipments through the strategic Red Sea shipping lane of Bab al-Mandeb.
The ​​operation area for the International Maritime Security Construct covers the Strait of Hormuz, Bab al-Mandab, the Sea of ​​Oman and the Arabian Gulf, WAM said.
Syrian state news agency SANA said two people were injured on Wednesday when armed groups fired two mortar shells on Bab al-Salam neighborhood in Old Damascus.
It plans as well to help develop for tourism the abandoned historical neighbourhood of Bab al-Azab below the Cairo citadel in cooperation with a private company.
Already, some officials have alleged that an Iranian-made drone was involved in killing four Turkish soldiers in an air attack near al-Bab on Nov. 24.
Saudi efforts to boost crowd numbers included commandeering two desks at the entrance of the Bab al Qasr hotel, situated yards from the U.A.E.'s presidential palace.
In the summer of 2011, I was a well-known actor in Syria, having recently starred in Bab al-Hara, a hit soap opera across the Arab world.
The threat to shipping in Bab al-Mandeb has been building for some time, with the Houthis targeting Saudi tankers in at least two other attacks this year.
He did not specify whether the camps would be in Idlib province or Turkish-controlled areas of northern Syria around the towns of Azaz, Al-Bab and Jarablus.
The villages -- Tal Shair, Hamir al-Ajaaj, and al-Helwaniah -- are near a key border crossing, Bab al-Salama, but it is unclear from whom they were seized.
Abu Bilal's neighborhood, Bab al-Dreib, was one of the first to join in, and he was one of the first to become deeply involved, Mr. Talawy said.
The attacks took place around the Bab al-Mandab gateway though which nearly four million barrels of oil are shipped daily to Europe, the United States and Asia.
During the weekend, Turkey-backed FSA groups and Syrian Kurdish fighters allied to the SDF fought near the Islamic State-held town of al-Bab, north of Aleppo.
The Turkish army dropped leaflets on al-Bab this week urging civilians to seek shelter, as rebels backed by Turkish tanks and warplanes closed in on the city.
The Observatory said Islamic State fighters had stormed homes in several villages they control near Al Bab, including Arab, Qabaseen and Nairabiyeh, and took with them mostly men.
A report from the think tank indicates that a prison break has already occurred at Al-Bab, Syria, where militants were being guarded by Turkish-backed opposition groups.
Rebels supported by Turkish troops have laid siege to al-Bab for weeks under an operation to sweep the Sunni hardliners and Kurdish fighters from its Syrian border.
The Turkish troops had gone into Syria largely to stop an advance by Kurdish rebels, who are also trying to reach Al Bab to dislodge the Islamic State.
The clashes were between Zawiyat Addahmani's Alfirqa Assadisah or the Sixth Team Security brigade and Bab Azizziya's Salah Al-Burki brigade in Camp 77, a security source said.
The United States also recently began carrying out airstrikes near Al Bab, a town in northern Syria that Turkey has been struggling to take from the Islamic State.
U.N. data shows some of the displaced near the Turkish border have come from as far as al-Bab, where Turkish-backed rebels recently drove out Islamic State.
Roberts helped set up hospitals inside a cave in Idlib and a basement in Al Bab, as well as a blood bank and a vaccination program in Aleppo.
The USS Mason did not return fire, the official said, adding that the incident took place just north of the Bab al-Mandab strait off Yemen's southern coast.
In 2013, more than 3.4 million barrels of oil passed through the 20-km- (12-mile-) wide Bab al-Mandab each day, the U.S. Energy Information Administration says.
The operation area for the International Maritime Security Construct covers the Strait of Hormuz, Bab al-Mandab, the Sea of Oman and the Arabian Gulf, the report said.
Similar disputes exist about the Strait of Hormuz between Iran and Oman; the Bab al-Mandab strait between Yemen and Djibouti; and in parts of the South China Sea.
Free Syrian Army (FSA) rebel groups participating in the Turkey-backed 'Euphrates Shield' operation also said on Monday they had captured a string of villages east of al Bab.
The clash on Thursday near the IS-held city of al-Bab underlined the risk of the parallel offensives igniting new fighting between the government and its rebel enemies.
It could also charter non-Saudi ships to carry its oil through Bab al-Mandeb, as it does with Asian customers using different routes, industry and trading sources say.
Abu Sa'ad al-Sudani, a Sudanese national, and his wife, Australian Shadi Jabar Khalil Mohammad, died in the April 22 manned airstrike near Al Bab, Syria, the military said.
As a shipping hub for trade between Asia, Europe and Africa, the UAE has an interest in the safety of shipping lanes such as the Bab al-Mandab strait.
A U.S. defense official told Reuters the United States targeted Abu Muhammad al-Adnani in a Tuesday strike on a vehicle traveling in the Syrian town of al-Bab.
OCHA said newly uprooted people might try to head toward Al-Bab or Azaz, two towns west of Manbij, or south to the Maskanah plain close to Lake Assad.
However, the militants still hold most of Syria's Euphrates basin, from al-Bab, 26 km southeast of Dabiq, through the group's capital of Raqqa and to the Iraqi border.
Turkish forces have surrounded the Islamic State-controlled town of al-Bab for weeks as part of an operation that has been going on for more than five months.
The military also said the rebels it backs had seized control of a highway between al-Bab and Manbij, a town some 50 km (30 miles) to the east.
"Federal police and rapid response forces completely control the al-Basha mosque, al-Adala street and Bab al-Saray market inside the Old City," a federal police spokesman said.
"After Daesh (Islamic State) was expelled ... we returned and the cities were suffering from large-scale destruction and general ruin," said Mohammad Karaz, director of education in al-Bab.
The operation is expected to take a four-pronged approach, launching from the Syrian border towns of Atmeh, Bab al Hawa, Harem and Salkin, according to the rebel commander.
The Free Syrian Army (FSA) fighters, a loose coalition of Syrian Arabs and Turkmen, have been attacking al-Bab since December, aided by Turkish warplanes, tanks and special forces.
The Turkish military said on Wednesday it had "neutralised" 44 Islamic State militants and wounded 117 as part of its operation in the northern Syrian town of al-Bab.
In 2013, more than 3.4 million barrels of oil per day passed through the 20 km (12 mile) wide Bab al-Mandab, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration.
I arrived at the neighborhood of Bab al-Jadid and could almost hear the cannons of Nader Shah, the 18th-century Persian ruler who tried to take over Mosul.
About 50 trucks daily are crossing the bigger of two authorized Turkish border crossings, Bab al-Hawa, and the U.N. humanitarian agency OCHA wants to increase this to 100.
The other is a pro-government informant from Al Bab, who now lives outside Syria but has relayed information to the Syrian military from his contacts in the city.
Turkey now wants the rebels it supports to push further south into Syria and take the Islamic State-held city of al-Bab, around 40 km northeast of Aleppo.
In addition, an Israeli court on Sunday placed a temporary closure order on a disputed site known as Bab al-Rahma, which was being used by Muslims for prayer.
By taking Islamic State territory south of al-Bab, the Syrian army is seeking to prevent any possible move by Turkey and the rebel groups it supports to expand southwards.
The Turkey-backed Syrian rebels have been besieging the Islamic State-held town of al-Bab for weeks, while clashes between the jihadists and rebels have intensified in recent days.
In support, US airstrikes have targeted ISIS operations inside the city, most notably with a bombardment of its command headquarters in the five-story Bab Sinjar building on February 17.
US military commanders would like more authority to stop Iranian weapons shipments into Yemen through the Bab al-Mandab waterway between Yemen and the Horn of Africa, the official said.
It has responded by launching an incursion across its border, helping rebel factions to expel ISIS from the town of al-Bab and occupying a large patch of northern Syria.
Trump and President Recep Tayyip Erdogan have spoken recently, and the semi-official Turkish news agency Anadolu reported that cooperation in evicting ISIS from al Bab and Raqqa was discussed.
In 2013, more than 3.4 million barrels of oil a day passed through the 20-km (12-mile) wide Bab al-Mandab strait, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration.
ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Three Turkish soldiers were killed and seven others wounded in an Islamic State attack in Syria's al-Bab region, security and hospital sources in Turkey said on Thursday.
Officers in Iraq's Federal Police told Reuters on Sunday that Islamic State militants had shelled government forces with chemical weapons agents in the Urouba and Bab Jadid districts on Saturday.
The report on CNN Turk did not give a reason for the decision to shut the Cilvegozu gate in Turkey's southern Hatay province, located across from Syria's Bab al-Hawa.
The blast, in the Azaz district of greater Aleppo province, occurred Thursday near the rebel-controlled Bab al-Salam border crossing with Turkey, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported.
The first video, posted on Thursday, shows a line of honking cars clogging a road that Mr. Mhiemaed described as leading toward the Turkish border crossing at Bab al-Salameh.
Russia, Assad's most powerful ally, has carried out air strikes targeting Islamic State in the al-Bab area in support of both sides, underlining big shifts in the diplomatic landscape.
Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said this week Manbij was the next target of Ankara's campaign in northern Syria following the capture of nearby al-Bab from Islamic State last week.
Shops were open in Algiers on Monday but students did not show up for classes at Bab Ezzouar University in Algiers, the biggest in the oil-producing North African country.
Turkey's army said 11 of the jihadists were killed in air strikes by coalition forces, while the rest were killed in artillery fire and clashes during operations in al-Bab.
A U.S. military spokesman said two missiles were fired from Houthi-held territory at the USS Mason, a guided missile destroyer sailing north of the strategic Bab al-Mandab strait.
Trump and Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan agree in an overnight phone call to act jointly against Islamic State in the Syrian towns of al-Bab and Raqqa, Turkish sources say.
It is supposedly nothing more than a logistics hub for anti-piracy operations and evacuating citizens from hotspots like Yemen, just 22015 miles away across the Bab el-Mandib strait.
It said the YPG tried to infiltrate the front lines in Syria's al-Bab area, where Turkey carved out a de facto buffer zone in its 2016 "Euphrates Shield" offensive.
Al Bab has been devastated over the years, its civilian population caught between the brutal rule of the Islamic State and indiscriminate barrel bombings and airstrikes by the Syrian government.
In Washington, the Pentagon spokesman, Peter Cook, confirmed that an American "precision strike" near Al Bab, Syria, on Tuesday night had targeted Mr. Adnani, but could not confirm his death.
Fighting around al-Bab has escalated this week with Turkish soldiers and 138 jihadists killed in clashes on Wednesday in the deadliest day since the start of Turkey's Syrian incursion.
In 2013, more than 3.4 million barrels of oil per day passed through the 20 km (12 mile) wide Bab al-Mandab strait, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration.
Turkey launched an operation to drive the jihadists away from the Syrian border five months ago and have been besieging the Islamic State controlled town of al-Bab for weeks.
"Daesh (Islamic State) fighters have withdrawn from several villages on the outskirts of Jarablus and are heading south toward the city of al Bab," the Failaq al Sham commander said.
By contrast, Turkey has been able to muster only about 2,000 Arab fighters in its battle to reclaim Al Bab, and that campaign has been bogged down by fierce resistance.
Russian and Turkish state-affiliated news media said that Turkey and Russia had been coordinating to prevent clashes outside Al Bab, and Syrian fighters on the ground confirmed the coordination.
"Jarablus and al-Rai have been cleansed, now we are moving towards al-Bab... We will go there and stop (Islamic State) from being a threat to us," he said.
ANKARA (Reuters) - Turkey-backed forces will move toward the northern Syrian town of Manbij after completing their operation in al-Bab as originally planned, Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said on Tuesday.
They and Hadi's government say their campaign aims to protect Bab al-Mandeb, through which nearly 4 million barrels of oil are shipped daily to Europe, the United States and Asia.
A resident of the nearby town of al-Bab said that in recent days, some residents of central Raqqa had been allowed to leave the city center for the outlying areas.
He added that Ankara's priority remained the creation of a safe zone between the Syrian towns of Azaz and Jarablus, a strip of border territory to the north of al-Bab.
Meanwhile, the U.S. moved a Navy destroyer, the USS Cole, close to the Bab al-Mandab Strait off the coast of Yemen to protect waterways from Houthi militia aligned with Iran.
Iran announced Thursday it had deployed two warships to the Bab el-Mandeb Strait, where a U.S. Navy destroyer recently fired retaliatory strikes against Iran-backed Houthi rebel sites in Yemen.
ANKARA (Reuters) - The Turkish military said on Wednesday it had "neutralised" 44 Islamic State militants and wounded 117 as part of its operation in the northern Syrian town of al-Bab.
ISTANBUL (Reuters) - A Turkish-backed offensive by Syrian rebels to take the Syrian town of al-Bab from Islamic State should be finished soon, Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said on Wednesday.
The ADCO concession, including the Bab, Bu Hasa, Shah and Asab fields, produces 1.6 million barrels per day (bpd) of oil, with output expected to reach 1.8 million bpd from 2017.
Syrians who once streamed through the Bab al-Hawa border crossing to safety in Turkey are now being forced back through, according to reports of forced deportations of Syrians from Turkey.
"Iran or its proxies could respond by targeting commercial vessels, including oil tankers, or U.S. military vessels in the Red Sea, Bab-el-Mandeb Strait, or the Persian Gulf," MARAD said.
Hundreds of angry Syrians protesting against the Russian and Syrian bombing demonstrated near the main Bab al Hawa border crossing with Turkey, demanding Ankara's intervention to stop the Russian backed offensive.
Those include "Hareut" — the word is Hebrew for friendship or comradeship — and "Bab al-Wad," a haunting memorial to those who fell in battle trying to open the road to Jerusalem.
People like Omar Al-Hiraki, a surgeon at the Bab Al-Hawa Hospital in northwestern Syria, who told me that his hospital saw two children who had died from freezing temperatures.
A senior Turkish official, who disclosed the visit, suggested one option would be reassigning many of the Syrian Army troops in the Al Bab siege to the fight in Raqqa instead.
A local police source in the town said they had staged a controlled detonation of another motorbike in the town of al-Rai, north of al-Bab, and arrested a suspect.
Critically, Soleimani's mention of the Red Sea signaled the regime's willingness to disrupt oil shipments in the Bab el-Mandeb Strait — the world's fourth-largest oil chokepoint — via its proxies there.
Abu Salah, who lives in the Bab al-Tob neighborhood in western Mosul, said the Islamic State, also known as ISIS, had recruited three families as spies in return for food.
Al Bab is one of the largest urban areas in central northern Syria, after Aleppo, the city retaken from rebel groups by Syrian forces, with Russian help, nearly two months ago.
Top oil exporter Saudi Arabia said on Saturday it would resume all oil shipments through the strategic Red Sea shipping lane of Bab al-Mandeb, the state news agency SPA reported.
In any future nuclear negotiation, however, its leverage may well be its ability to directly threaten Tel Aviv, Riyadh, Abu Dhabi, and the Strait of Hormuz and the Bab El Mandeb.
One battle erupted in al-Bab when a gunman claimed an empty lot of land, claiming it had been IS property, and the local owner protested, prompting clashes with heavy machine guns.
Although Turkey is a NATO member and part of the U.S.-led coalition against Islamic State, Washington has said it is not providing support for the Turkish bid to take al-Bab.
An additional 25 were killed overnight as the regime dropped parachute bombs in the Bab al-Nayreb neighborhood, an activist from the Aleppo Media Center said, adding dozens more had been injured.
RIYADH/DUBAI (Reuters) - Saudi Arabia announced last week it was suspending oil shipments through the Red Sea's Bab al-Mandeb strait after Yemen's Iran-aligned Houthis attacked two ships in the waterway.
Turkey has criticized the coalition for what it sees as insufficient air support for the ground offensive, while welcoming Russian air strikes coordinated with it in the al-Bab area this month.
But key US ally Turkey considers one of those groups to be terrorists -- and says it killed as many as 200 YPG fighters in airstrikes in al Bab, northern Syria in October.
U.S. officials see that broader civil war as an obstacle to a sustained military campaign against the militants, as well as a threat to the Bab al-Mandab strait, a strategic waterway.
An employee at the Syrian Bab al-Hawa crossing told Reuters he recorded at least 0003,500 Syrian returns this month, but could not say how many were voluntary trips or forced deportations.
She searches for the creative origins of The Stranger in the strained relationship between Arabs and Europeans in Algiers's lower-class neighborhoods of Belcourt, where Camus grew up, and Bab-el-Oued.
The second component is the country's location, which gives the Kingdom the distinction of being located near three marine shipping lanes: the Strait of Hormuz, Bab al-Mandab and the Suez Canal.
In 2018, some US and British aid groups stopped using the Bab al-Hawa border crossing because of reports that the taxes being levied on trucks carrying aid supplies were funding HTS.
Turkey's offensive in Syria has ground to a halt at al-Bab and after Erdoğan's apology to Putin for shooting down the Russian plane, it is clear Russia has the upper hand.
Ahmad Kanjo, a Zinki field commander, said on Friday that the rebels planned to keep fighting and advance west toward Al Bab, the largest town in the area still held by ISIS.
The twin blasts were caused by IEDs that targeted buses carrying Iraqi pilgrims visiting the Bab al-Saghir Cemetery in Damascus, according to Iraq's Foreign Ministry Spokesman Ahmed Jamal in a statement.
The project near the city of al-Bab points to preparations for a long stay in northern Syria, though Jaish al-Islam insists that the people displaced from eastern Ghouta will return.
On Tuesday the U.S. announced a plan to form a military coalition that would help secure both the Strait of Hormuz and Bab al-Mandab by providing military escorts for oil tankers.
In August 2016, Turkish forces battled the Islamic State for weeks to take control of the northern Syrian town of Al Bab, crucially with the help of Russian and American air support.
Al-Rai has, since the outset of the Syrian civil war, switched hands repeatedly, and is considered a strategic foothold, sitting just miles north of al-Bab, an IS fortress near Aleppo.
Al-Bab is also a strategic target for the Kurdish YPG militia, which, like the rebels, is battling Islamic State in northern Syria but is viewed as a hostile force by Turkey.
Some 50 km (35 miles) northeast of Aleppo, Turkish-backed rebels attacked government-held positions near the city of al-Bab, a rebel source and the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported.
The Bab al-Mandeb strait, where the Red Sea meets the Gulf of Aden in the Arabian Sea, is only 20 km (12 miles) wide, making hundreds of ships potentially easy targets.
Supported by American and Russian airstrikes, Turkish forces and Syrian militias supported by Turkey recently succeeded in taking the town Al Bab from the Islamic State, also known as ISIS or ISIL.
To the east, opposition fighters backed by Turkey have been pushing back the Islamic State, gaining territory and advancing on the town of Al Bab, a stronghold of the group, farther east.
The government offensive was aimed at retaking from the Houthis the port city of Mokha, close to Bab el Mandeb, a strategic strait that connects the Red Sea to the Indian Ocean.
But now the Syrian Army, aided by Hezbollah militia fighters and artillery units supplied by Russia, has cut off the approach to Al Bab from the south, the Syrian Observatory said Monday.
The coalition said it destroyed sites used to assemble and launch explosives-laden boats and drones that pose a threat to maritime shipping lines in the Red Sea's Bab al-Mandeb strait.
"It's next to Bab al-Mandab so if something happens there, that means 10 percent of world trade stops," he added, referring to the strait at the southern end of the Red Sea.
Speaking at the opening ceremony of a natural gas terminal in the coastal town of Izmir, Erdogan said the Free Syrian Army, with the backing of Turkish forces, would soon capture al-Bab.
ISTANBUL (Reuters) - A Turkish soldier was killed and two others wounded in a bomb attack by Islamic State militants near the northern Syrian city of al-Bab, Turkish security sources said on Sunday.
Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said last week that Turkish-backed forces were just 2 km (1.25 miles) from Islamic State-held al-Bab and were expected to take it quickly despite some resistance.
The USS Cole arrived in the vicinity of the Bab al-Mandab Strait off southwestern Yemen where it will carry out patrols including escorting vessels, the officials said, speaking on condition of anonymity.
A maritime source familiar with the area said that, depending on the current, any free floating mines could be pushed into the open sea in an area close to the Bab al-Mandab.
The Horn ports all sit near the Bab al-Mandab strait, a vital choke-point at the mouth of the Red Sea: 4.8m barrels of oil passed through it every day in 2016.
The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) directed its partners working in northwest Syria to immediately cease all use of the Bab al-Hawa border crossing for USAID-funded awards on Sept.
Turkish artillery fire also hit 104 Islamic State targets, including buildings and bombed vehicles, the army said in a statement, reiterating it had largely established control in the residential areas of al-Bab.
For now, the rebel supply lines to Aleppo are open, since the border crossing at Bab al-Hawa is still under the control of Turkey-backed forces, but that might not last long.
The Observatory said the Syria Democratic Forces (SDF), bringing together Kurdish and Arab fighters, were now almost 17 km from the city of al-Bab, an Islamic State stronghold north east of Aleppo.
The Turkish army and Syrian rebels launched an operation in August to drive the jihadists away from the border region and have besieged the Islamic State-controlled town of al-Bab for weeks.
Turkey's state-run Anadolu Agency, citing its correspondent in al-Bab, said the rebels had seized control of the town center and were now clearing mines and explosive devices laid by the jihadists.
Earlier, a Turkey-based rebel official from a group previously involved in fighting in Aleppo province said the rebels had taken control of al-Bab, although pockets of IS militants were still fighting.
Turkish officials have repeatedly said that the al-Bab operation was taking longer than anticipated because of numbers of civilians still in the town and the care being taken not to harm them.
The United Nations is not party to the Douma surrender deal, in which the evacuees are going to an area around Jarablus and al-Bab in northern Syria controlled by Turkish-backed rebels.
"Recent incidents off Somalia, the Bab al-Mandab and wider Indian Ocean indicate an increased threat level to shipping from piracy and maritime terrorism," said Gerry Northwood at British maritime security firm MAST.
The USS Cole arrived in the vicinity of the Bab al-Mandab Strait off southwestern Yemen where it will carry out patrols, including escorting vessels, the officials said, speaking on condition of anonymity.
With the new arrivals to al-Bab, the camp of more than 280 tents grew to include 44 new communal tents, each housing up to 50 people, with men and women living separately.
ANKARA (Reuters) - Syrian rebels backed by Turkish warplanes killed 68 Islamic State militants in northern Syria overnight, the Turkish military said on Saturday, as intense fighting around the town of al-Bab continued.
Encircled by maritime chokepoints including the Strait of Hormuz and the Strait of Bab al-Mandab, it depends heavily on wheat imports from the Black Sea region which come via the Turkish Straits.
It is people like Um Russil, a mother of two, who came back to her home in the Bab al Jadeed neighborhood of the Old City in October, that Hibbu needs to reassure.
Ismail Bourrich and his wife, Bouchra Salmi, natives of Morocco — he from Casablanca, she from Essaouira, both along the coast — opened Bab Marrakech last June in what was once a Chinese-Mexican spot.
At least 10 people have died after a car bomb exploded on Saturday in the northern Syrian town Al-Bab, per a post from the official Twitter account of the Turkish Defense Ministry.
But the Turkish Army is now in direct conflict with the group in northern Syria, where Turkey is leading attempts to expel the Islamic State from the strategically important city of Al Bab.
"There is no doubt that Hodeidah Port has now become a starting point for terrorist operations to threaten the maritime navigation in the Red Sea and the Bab al-Mandab strait," Maliki said.
Elsewhere in Syria, 14 Turkish soldiers were killed and at least 33 wounded in fighting with Islamic State militants ensconced in the town of Al Bab, about 15 miles from the Turkish border.
The Bab al-Mandeb strait, where the Red Sea meets the Gulf of Aden in the Arabian Sea, is only 20 km (12 miles) wide, making hundreds of ships potentially an easy target.
Operating without the benefit of precise intelligence, the United States recently engaged in what officials called a "show of force" operation in which American aircraft flew low over Al Bab and dropped flares.
Through its two narrow chokepoints – the Suez Canal in the north and the Bab el-Mandab Strait in the south – around 3.9 and 4.8 million oil barrels, respectively, flowed every day in 2016.
In July last year China established its first overseas military base in Djibouti, near the Bab el-Mandeb Strait, among the world's busiest shipping lanes and one of three crucial Indian Ocean arteries.
ANKARA (Reuters) - Clashes between Turkish-backed Syrian rebels and Islamic State militants intensified around the northern Syrian town of al-Bab on Wednesday, killing 14 Turkish soldiers and 138 jihadists, the army said.
"Once this area has been seized, Daesh's dominance of al-Bab will to a large extent be broken," it said in an earlier statement on Wednesday, using an Arabic acronym for the group.
As of Wednesday morning, the Syrian army had retaken the key area of al-Shaar and most of the neighborhoods in the old city, including Agheour, al-Farafrah and Bab al-Hadeed, they said.
That attack coincided with confirmation from the Turkish military that ISIS had been driven from al-Bab, its last significant holdout between the northern countryside of Aleppo and Raqqa, the group's de facto capital.
She said that her friend (who was in attendance at Houston's birthday dinner) knew about the "BAB" party and was the one who arranged to have space set up at SPiN for the group.
The vessel, an Australian-built high-speed logistics catamaran under lease to the United Arab Emirates military, was attacked by Houthi fighters near the Bab al-Mandab strait off Yemen's southern coast on Saturday.
"It is the only good thing that happened to Algeria," said Hakim Ghazi, 25, sitting with a friend outside a 10-year-old social housing project in Bab Ezzouar, on the southeast of Algiers.
Federal police also arrested Husam Sheet al-Jabouri, the local chief of Diwan al-Hisba, an IS unit responsible for enforcing strict Islamic rules, in Mosul's Bab al-Sijin area, a police statement said.
After Manbij fell to the SDF, some local fighters announced they had established a military council for al-Bab, signaling they believed an assault on Islamic State in the town would soon take place.
Four of those killed were so-called emirs, or local commanders, the Turkish military said, adding that its jets destroyed 56 buildings and three command control centers in the al-Bab and Bzagah regions.
Kleman told the smuggler he lived in the village of Bezaa just northeast of the Syrian town of al-Bab, which was an area under ISIS control until a Turkish offensive in February 2017.
AL-BAB, Syria/ISTANBUL (Reuters) - When Syrian real estate worker Abu Ahmad was stopped by police in Istanbul he expected a ritual ticking-off for his expired documents, before being allowed on his way.
The Red Sea port near the Bab al-Mandab strait is under the control of Yemen's armed Houthi movement, which has been fighting Saudi Arabia and its allies in a two-year-old conflict.
Turkey launched an operation, dubbed "Euphrates Shield", to drive jihadists away from the Syrian border more than five months ago and has been besieging the Islamic State controlled town of al-Bab for weeks.
He added the main purpose was for China to use the naval base to protect its national interest — monitoring its merchant vessels passing the Bab el-Mandeb Strait and for naval refuelling and restocking.
ANKARA (Reuters) - Syrian rebel forces supported by Turkish armed forces seized control of strategically important hills around the Islamic State-controlled town of al-Bab after operations launched overnight, Turkey's military said on Wednesday.
"In Tripoli, you have these two communities (Bab al-Tebbaneh and Jabal Mohsen) and they're both separated and united by this one street," explains Ariel Rubin, the head of digital content at the ICRC.
The conflict has already spilled over into maritime warfare, including one attack on a Saudi vessel by an unmanned boat filled with explosives and potentially threatening Bab al-Mandab, an important global shipping lane.
Tahrir al-Sham was sending reinforcements to the Bab al-Hawa border crossing with Turkey that is controlled by Ahrar al-Sham and represents a major commercial and civilian gateway into rebel-held Idlib.
Should Iran acquire that capability in Bab-el-Mandeb, by establishing a foothold in the Gulf of Aden, even if it chose not to utilize this capability, oil prices and insurance costs would surge.
The ministry said on Saturday that the car bomb was carried out by Syrian Kurdish YPG fighters in the northern Syrian border town of Al-Bab, which Turkish forces seized in a 2016 offensive.
Brazilian prosecutors allege that Fares Mohammed Hassan Mana'a, a widely known arms smuggler and former governor in Yemen, diverted a consignment of 22015,703 handguns from Djibouti across the Bab el-Mandeb Strait to Yemen.
"We have provided some ISR (Intelligence, Surveillance, Reconnaissance) support in al-Bab... those are the kinds of things that we are talking about, sort off on an hourly bases with the Turks," she said.
The campaign's goal is to deescalate tensions in international waters, specifically focusing on the Arabian Gulf, Strait of Hormuz, the Bab el-Mandeb Strait (BAM) and the Gulf of Oman, the Defense Department said.
The UAE foreign ministry, in a statement carried by state news agency WAM, said the civilian ship was targeted by Houthi militia near the Bab al-Mandab strait off Yemen's southern coast on Saturday.
At the approach to the Bab al-Hawa crossing from Syria to Turkey, a large sign in the center of the road encapsulates the sense of entrapment and resignation in the Islamist-controlled region.
Their immediate challenge is securing al-Bab, an Islamic State-held city northeast of Aleppo which Kurdish-led fighters are racing to take, and which lies close to the front lines of Assad's allies.
The UAE military said on Saturday one of its vessels had been involved in an "incident" near the Bab al-Mandab strait off Yemen's southern coast but none of its crew had been hurt.
Every day, giant tankers carrying up to five million barrels of oil products pass through the strait of Bab el Mandeb, an 18-mile gap separating the Arabian Peninsula from the Horn of Africa.
But in the battle for Al Bab, Russia and Turkey must transform their newfound understanding into results on the ground, with the ambitious goal of pushing their Syrian partners into de facto military cooperation.
An estimated 4.8 million bpd of crude oil and refined products flowed through the Bab al-Mandeb strait in 2016 toward Europe, the United States and Asia, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration.
In the wake of Operation Euphrates Shield, which resulted in the removal of ISIS terrorists from Jarabulus, Dabiq and Al-Bab in 2016, hundreds of thousands of Syrian refugees have returned to their homes.
The vessel, an Australian-built high speed logistics catamaran under lease to the United Arab Emirates military, was attacked by Houthi fighters near the Bab al-Mandab strait off Yemen's southern coast on Saturday.
In 2016, the UAE captured the ports of Mukalla and Ash-Shihr, about 300 and 375 miles east of Aden, respectively, as well as two strategically-located islands in the Bab el-Mandab Strait.
Iran has not threatened to block Bab al-Mandeb but has said it would block the Strait of Hormuz, at the mouth of the Gulf, if it were prevented from exporting its own oil.
ALEPPO, Syria (Reuters) - Swaddled in white towels, the Mansour and Wafai families sat in an arched alcove of Aleppo's Bab al-Ahmar public bathhouse, reviving their once-weekly tradition after years of war in Syria.
"The plans are being firmed up on how and where to evacuate with options of west Aleppo and Bab al Hawa hospital in Idlib," he said, referring to a hospital along the Turkish-Syrian border.
"Recent incidents off Somalia, the Bab al-Mandab and wider Indian Ocean indicate an increased threat level to shipping from piracy and maritime terrorism," British maritime security firm MAST said in a report this week.
The wake was being held Saturday in the rebel-controlled neighborhood of Bab al-Nayrab, the same area where 15 people were killed in a barrel bombing Thursday, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.
ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Forty-four Islamic State militants were killed by Turkey-backed operations around the Syrian town of al-Bab and in U.S.-led coalition air strikes on Monday, the Turkish military said on Tuesday.
The Observatory said the Syria Democratic Forces (SDF), bringing together Kurdish and Arab fighters, were now almost 17 km (10 miles) from the city of al-Bab, an Islamic State stronghold north east of Aleppo.
The US warship was in international waters more than 0003 nautical miles (22 km) offshore, in the southern end of the Red Sea, north of the Bab el-Mandeb Strait, according to a defense official.
The attack took place at a bus station where the pilgrims had been brought to visit the nearby Bab al-Saghir cemetery, named after one of the seven gates of the Old City of Damascus.
In addition, the East-West Pipeline, known as Petroline, mainly transports crude from the kingdom's eastern fields to Yanbu, which lies north of Bab al-Mandeb so shipments could avoid that Red Sea shipping chokepoint.
North of Aleppo, the moderate rebels in the tiny gap below the Turkish border crossing of Bab Al Salama, are under Russian fire, and pressure from the regime forces that moved against Nubul and Zahraa.
The country, in the Horn of Africa, is strategic because it sits on the Bab el-Mandeb Strait, which connects the Mediterranean Sea (via the Suez Canal and the Red Sea) to the Indian Ocean.
The impoverished country lies along the Bab al-Mandeb strait at the southern mouth of the Red Sea, one of the most important trade routes for oil tankers heading from the Middle East to Europe.
The army and its allies captured the villages of Sora, Moran, Surja al-Saghira and Surja al-Kabira, located about 16km (10 miles) southwest of al-Bab and roughly the same distance east of Aleppo.
A war monitor, the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, said later on Thursday that Euphrates Shield forces had taken full control of al-Bab and of two neighboring towns, Qabasin and al-Bezah.
Millions of barrels of oil are transported daily to Europe, the United States and Asia through the Bab el-Mandab and the Strait of Hormuz, waterways that run along the coasts of Yemen and Iran.
The EU Naval Force said in a statement that the attackers fired rocket-propelled grenades before breaking off their assault on the Marshall Islands-flagged tanker MT MUSKIE in the southern Bab al-Mandab Strait.
Earlier this month, the Pentagon said the U.S.-led coalition had carried out flights in support of Turkish forces near the Islamic State-controlled town of al-Bab but did not carry out air strikes.
But civilian affairs are also a top priority: Buwaydani said a mall, a school, a mosque and a clinic would also be built at the construction site some 15 km (10 miles) from al-Bab.
A senior Emirati commander was among dozens killed in a Tochka rocket strike in 2015 on an army camp near Bab al-Mandab, one of the bloodiest setbacks for Gulf forces in months of fighting.
ANKARA (Reuters) - Turkey's military confirmed on Friday that Syrian rebels had taken full control of all neighborhoods of Syria's al-Bab from Islamic State, marking a significant advance for Ankara's drive to oust the jihadists.
Those could include Bab el-Mandeb, the strait off the coast of Yemen, where Iranian-aligned rebels are fighting a Saudi-led coalition, said Helima Croft, global head of commodity strategy at RBC Capital Markets.
The fighting to take al-Bab lasted for weeks in January and February, costing many lives as Turkish jets and armor pummeled Islamic State positions in the town and FSA groups tried to capture ground.
A Foreign Ministry statement carried on state media said the entry of Turkish military vehicles into rebel-held northwest Syria through the Bab al-Hawa crossing late on Thursday was a violation of international law.
Maasum, a student at the Algiers Bab Ezouar university of technology, who gave only his first name, acknowledged during last Friday's protest that there were fewer demonstrators, but said he remained committed to bigger change.
Turkish forces secured control the region between Afrin and Manbij districts, pushing Kurdish YPG militia east of Euphrates river and driving Islamic State fighters away from Jarablus, Dabiq and Al-Bab regions in northwest Syria.
Turkish troops and their Syrian allies, who have struggled to take the Islamic State-held city of Al Bab in recent months, may not be the best short-term partners in the fight for Raqqa.
Their simultaneous race to seize the city, Al Bab, has turned into a test of how a global realignment of powers supporting Syria's antagonists could help reshape or end the nearly six-year-old conflict.
Al Bab, which had roughly 100,000 people when the war began in 2011, is the last urban area held by the Islamic State west of its de facto capital, Raqqa, where the group remains entrenched.
Prices got support after Saudi Arabia announced it would suspend shipments of oil through the critical Bab el-Mandeb Strait, after Houthi rebels in Yemen attacked a pair of oil tankers in the Red Sea.
The Turkish military acknowledged in a statement that Russian warplanes had attacked Islamic State positions south of Al Bab under an agreement between Turkey and Russia, but did not discuss the role of Turkish aircraft.
"I can confirm the death of the journalist Mohamed Tamalt in Bab el-Oued hospital after a hunger strike of more than three months and a three-month coma," lawyer Amine Sidhoum said on Facebook.
The military had said earlier that the rebel forces, which have been launching attacks on Islamic State fighters in al-Bab for weeks, had largely established control over the strategic area around the town's hospital.
US military sources told various news outlets on Tuesday afternoon that they had targeted an "ISIL senior leader" near al-Bab — between Aleppo and Manbij — on Tuesday, but refused to confirm that it was Adnani.
Saudi Arabia said on Thursday it was temporarily halting all oil shipments through the Red Sea shipping lane of Bab al-Mandeb after an attack on two oil tankers by Yemen's Iran-aligned Houthi movement.

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