Dozens of people have been killed in Lebanon’s worst terrorist attack this year after a double suicide bombing in south Beirut upended a fragile peace.

The health ministry said 43 people had died and 239 had been wounded in the twin blasts on Thursday, which targeted the Shia-majority district of Burj al-Barajneh. It was the first major suicide bombing to strike the country since a similar attack in January that targeted an Alawite area in the northern city of Tripoli. The number of casualties is likely to rise due to the severity of the attack.

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Russian-backed militants violate truce 21 times.

One Ukrainian soldier was killed in the past 24 hours, and five others were wounded, according to Ukraine’s presidential military spokesman Andriy Lysenko.

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At least 16 soldiers of the army loyal to Tobruk government were killed and another 11 wounded in clashes in Benghazi with parliament forces of the rival government in Tripoli Wednesday, security personnel told EFE.

Four militias belonging to rival Islamist groups Majlis al Shura and Zwara Benghazi, with links to Tripoli, died in the fighting in Boatni in which fighter jets loyal to Tobruk also participated.

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Syrian regime army forces broke a siege imposed by militants of the Islamic State (ISIS) on a key military air base in Aleppo, a military source said on Tuesday.

The Kweyris air base, a major military base for Syrian regime troops in the northern province of Aleppo, has been under ISIS siege for more than a year.

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The Egyptian Interior Ministry said Monday that a senior commander in the Islamic State extremist group has been killed in a shoot-out in northern Cairo.

Ashraf al-Gharabli was the head of the extremist group’s operations in Cairo, northern Egypt and the western desert oases, the ministry said.

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Afghan talibans have hanged 15 of 35 Isis militants they have captured days ago in suthern province of Zabul.

Isis militants are accused of beheading 7 civilians, including 3 women, carried out saturday by afghan followers of ‘Caliph’.

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The Kenya Defence Forces (KDF) and the Somali National Army (SNA) have said they killed nine Al-Shabaab terrorists at Jungal, 30 kms North West of Bardhere.

In a press statement from the Ministry of Defence, the terrorists were pursued by the KDF soldiers and killed, impounding nine AK 47 rifle, five IEDs and assorted ammunition.

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