DAMASCUS -- At least 50 Islamic State (IS) militants were killed Thursday by U.S.-led airstrikes on a caves area in eastern Syria, a war monitor reported.

The air raids targeted the caves in the Baghouz, the last IS redoubt in the eastern countryside of Deir al-Zour province in eastern Syria, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights. (Syria-IS-Airstrike)

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MOGADISHU -- The death toll from car bombing in Somalia's capital Mogadishu rose to 15 while 17 others sustained injuries, medical sources said on Thursday.

Abdulkadir Abdirahman, director of Aamin Ambulance, free ambulance service in Mogadishu, confirmed the latest death toll to Xinhua, saying some victims succumbed to injuries at hospital.

"The death toll is 15, five of them are females, while 17 others got injured," Abdirahman said. (Somalia-Car Bombing)

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CARACAS -- Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaido will be barred from holding public office for 15 years following an investigation that showed irregularities in his financial records, Venezuela's Comptroller General Elvis Amoroso said on Thursday.

"Disqualify from holding any public office the citizen Juan Gerardo Antonio Guaido Marquez," Amoroso said, following the investigation into his declaration of assets. (Venezuela-Guaido)

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WASHINGTON -- Maria Butina, the Russian woman who pleaded guilty last year to working as a clandestine agent in the United States, will be sentenced in late April, a U.S. federal judge said Thursday.

Judge Tanya Chutkan, of the U.S. district court in Washington, D.C., set sentencing on April 26 for Butina, who was charged last year with acting as an agent of Moscow to infiltrate and influence U.S. politics. (US-Russia-Clandestine Agent) Enditem

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