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At least 42 civilians have been killed in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, a local official said Sunday, in what the government described as a massacre in revenge for military operations in the area.
Three days of national mourning have been declared following Saturday night’s mass killing, the latest in a series of massacres that have left more than 600 people dead in and around the troubled town of Beni since 2014.
In a major step toward ousting the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) from the jihadist group’s main Libyan stronghold of Sirte, pro-government forces said they had captured ISIS’ headquarters in the city.
Though ISIS fighters remained in several other parts of the city, officials said, but seizing control of their headquarters - the Ougadougou Centre, a conference centre where ISIS had set up base - has been the key goal of the forces loyal to Libya’s Government of National Accord (GNA).
At least five Malian soldiers are missing after clashes with a terror group, security sources told Anadolu Agency on Tuesday.
Intense fighting broke out between the Macina Liberation Front, an affiliate of Ansar Dine — a terrorist group linked to Al-Qaeda in the Maghreb Islamic (AQIM) — and the Malian army Monday after terrorists ambushed a military convoy in the Mopti region.
South Sudanese rival forces have clashed around a strategic town, Yei, which is about 160 km south of the national capital, Juba, and towards the Ugandan border.
This is after the opposition forces of the Sudan People’s Liberation Army (SPLA-IO) under the leadership of the former first vice president, Riek Machar, captured Lasu county, southwest of Yei.
Over the weekend, nearly 100 people were killed in protests organized in different parts of Ethiopia.
According to Amnesty International, 67 people died when “security forces fired live bullets at peaceful protesters” in different towns and cities in the Oromia region over the weekend.”
A source from Derna confirmed that 10 fighters from Dignity Operation forces, led by Khalifa Haftar, were killed and 19 others were wounded due to an attack by Derna Shura Council fighters on Dignity Operation’s location in Al-Thaher Al-Hamar on Friday dawn.
The Head of the Media office of the Derna Shura Council of Mujahideen, Muhammad Al-Mansouri, said they took tanks and weapons as well as ammunition from the Dignity Operation forces after the latter retreated from Al-Thaher Al-Hamar in southern Derna.
Egypt has announced that its forces have taken out the commander of the Da’esh (ISIS) affiliate terrorist group in the Sinai Peninsula, Ansar Beyt al-Maqdis.
The Egyptian Air Force reportedly killed Abu Doa’a Al-Ansari Thursday in air strikes on the group in northern Sinai, near El Arish, according to a statement in Arabic posted on the Egyptian Army’s Facebook page.