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One person was killed and five others were injured in clashes between Fursan Janzour Brigade and armed groups from the so-called Tribes Army – whose loyalty goes to Khalifa Haftar’s Operation Dignity – in Sayad district.
The casualties are from the Fursan Janzour Brigade, as the Tribes Army-affiliated armed groups said nothing to the media.
The Islamic State group in Egypt claimed on Tuesday that its fighters killed and wounded 20 Egyptian soldiers in four days of clashes in northern Sinai.
In a statement posted on a pro-IS website, the Egyptian affiliate of the Sunni militant group said the fighting took place south of the coastal city of el-Arish and that the militants also destroyed two tanks, a Humvee and two other military vehicles.
The SPLM-IO Monday said its fighters have successfully repulsed an attack by the government forces on their bases in and around Kuek, Upper Nile State.
In a statement extended to Sudan Tribune the rebel spokesperson William Gatjiath Deng claimed that the government forces, backed by ” Sudanese rebels of the Justice and Equality Movement (JEM) and SPLM-North” came from Gabat, Khor and Mustagbal areas.
A suicide bomber from the Islamist militant group al-Shabaab rammed a vehicle into a Kenyan military base in southern Somalia on Friday morning, setting off a ferocious firefight that killed dozens of people.
Representatives of the Shabab and of the Kenyan Defense Ministry each claimed that they had inflicted heavy losses on the other side. It was not possible to confirm immediately whether either side’s account was accurate.
Libyan forces have recaptured a main district in Benghazi from militants, a significant win in a long-running battle for control of the eastern city, a senior army officer said Wednesday.
“The area of Ganfouda has been completely liberated from terrorists,” Jamal al-Zahawi of the self-styled Libyan National Army (LNA) told broadcaster Libya Channel.
Islamist militants detonated a car bomb at the entrance of a hotel in the Somali capital Mogadishu and opened fire inside the lobby, killing at least 28 people, according to government officials and medical workers.
The attack began on Wednesday morning when the militants rammed a car into the gate of Dayah Hotel, located near the Somali parliament, and proceeded to storm inside and exchange gunfire with security guards. AFP reports that a second blast went off shortly thereafter, injuring at least four journalists who had arrived to report on the attack.
A mortar attack in restive northern Mali has killed one United Nations peacekeeper and seriously wounded two others in their camp near the Algerian border, the UN said Tuesday.
The statement from the UN peacekeeping force Minusma on Monday’s attack at the Aguelhok camp did not provide nationalities, but most of the UN troops there are from Chad.