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The airstrikes came as Yemen's Houthi rebels have stepped up attacks on vessels transiting the Red Sea, including a hit that sparked a fire on a fuel tanker on Friday.

Four US personnel suffered traumatic brain injuries after Iraq's Ain al-Asad air base was hit by multiple ballistic missiles and rockets fired by Iranian-backed terrorists from inside Iraq.

Turkey has conducted military incursions and bombing campaigns in Syria against the Kurdish YPG, which it regards as a wing of the Kurdistan Workers Party, or PKK.

Earlier on Sunday, the Houthis complained that US aircraft were observed flying close to Yemeni airspace and coastal areas.

Nine Turkish soldiers were killed and four others were wounded in Friday's clash with the PKK in northern Iraq, the ministry said after the incident.

Since the Israel-Hamas war began last October, the US military has come under attack at least 100 times in Iraq and Syria, usually with a mix of rockets and attack drones.

While Israel has not claimed responsibility for the strikes, the IDF has targeted southern Lebanon in the past as it is a stronghold of the Hezbollah terror group.

Six Palestinians were killed in an Israeli airstrike in Jenin amid armed clashes in the city, according to Palestinian reports.

Earlier this month, Jordanian airstrikes reportedly targeted arms and narcotic smugglers in southern Syria.

Battles also took place against Hezbollah in southern Lebanon the same day.