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Forces loyal to Yemen's exiled government recaptured a southern provincial capital from Shiite rebels and their allies on August 9 as they pressed an advance from second city Aden.

The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) militants have released an audio recording purporting to feature the suicide bomber who killed 15 people at a police compound mosque in Saudi Arabia.
                   
The audio, along with a photo of the suicide bomber identified as Abu Sinan al-Najdi, was posted late Friday on ISIL-affiliated Twitter accounts.

The Islamic State group has claimed responsibility for a suicide bombing in a Saudi Arabian mosque that killed at least 15 people, international newswires reported.

Turkey is not eager to embrace a recently-proposed Russian initiative to form a regional alliance to battle the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL). 

Turkish Foreign Ministry spokesperson Tanju Bilgiç said any other plan regarding ISIL other than the ongoing international coalition effort is not on Turkey?s agenda. 

The self proclaimed Islamic State or ISIS has claimed responsibility Thursday for the suicide bomb attack that killed 15 people, including 12 police officers in a police station in the north of Saudi Arabia. According to ISIS the suicide bomber, who was strapped with explosives managed to infiltrate the headquarters of the special police forces undetected and activated the mechanism.

Syria's Foreign Minister is to head to Oman on August 6 in his first visit to a Gulf country since the beginning of his country's brutal war in 2011, according to Syrian media.

Seventeen people were killed in a suicide bombing in a mosque in the town of Abha in southwestern Saudi Arabia on Thursday, international newswires reported, citing a local TV channel.

The Saudi interior ministry has confirmed the attack but put the death toll at "more than 13" people, according to AFP.

A suicide bomb attack inside a mosque in a local security forces headquarters in Abha city in south-west Saudi Arabia killed 13 people and wounded nine on Aug. 6, the Saudi state news agency reported, citing an interior ministry spokesman.

State television had earlier reported a death toll of 17. 

A commercial flight touched down in the southern Yemeni city of Aden on Aug. 4 for the first time since conflict shut the city?s airport more than four months ago, airport officials said. 

Washington has agreed to speed up arms sales to Gulf states, US Secretary of State John Kerry announced on August 3 after talks in Doha on their concerns over the Iran nuclear deal.