1. Crushing defeats for Takfiri terrorists in Iraq and Syria: The Iraqi army announces a major victory against ISIL in Ramadi as Syrian troops kill 17 terrorists in Dara’a.
2. Lebanon’s Hezbollah chief says the resistance movement will retaliate against the assassination of Hezbollah commander Samir Quntar by Israel.
3. Saudi warplanes launch fresh airstrikes on residential areas in several Yemeni cities. Yemeni fighters destroy a Saudi warship in a retaliatory missile attack
4. The families of two black people killed in the US city of Chicago say officers have used excessive force. A federal probe is underway in the city over racial bias in policing.
5. And, Pakistan marks the eighth anniversary of the assassination of former prime minister Benazir Bhutto as her death remains shrouded in mystery.