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Tunisian police have clashed with gunmen in a remote mountainous area in the southern region of Gabes, killing at least two militants, the interior ministry said on Monday.
Tunisia’s security forces are on a campaign against militants who have targeted military checkpoints and patrols in outlying areas. ISIS has also claimed three deadly urban attacks last year that hit Tunisia’s tourism industry.
A survivor hidden in a tree says he watched Boko Haram extremists firebomb huts and heard the screams of children among people burned to death in the latest attack by Nigeria’s homegrown Islamic extremists.
Scores of charred corpses and bodies with bullet wounds littered the streets from Saturday night’s attack on Dalori village just 5 kilometers (3 miles) from Maiduguri, the birthplace of Boko Haram and the biggest city in the northeast, according to survivors and soldiers.
Some 34,000 people have been displaced by the ongoing fighting in the mountainous area of Jebel Marra that straddles three Darfur states, said the UN Humanitarian Coordinator in Sudan, Marta Ruedas.
In a statement issued from Khartoum on Wednesday, Ruedas expressed “grave concern” over the humanitarian impact of the fighting between the Sudanese army and the Sudan Liberation Movement - Abdel Wahid al-Nur (SLM-AW) in Jebel Marra.
At least four Egyptian army soldiers were killed and 12 injured in the Sinai Peninsula after an armoured personnel carrier exploded on the outskirts of the city of Arish, security and medical sources said today.
Unidentified militants planted an improvised explosive device on the road and later remotely detonated it as the vehicle conducted a search operation, the sources said.
Four suicide bombers attacked a market and town on Monday in Cameroon’s Far North region near the border with Nigeria, killing at least 28 people and wounding 65 others, officials said.
Two attackers targeted the market in Bodo and two others detonated explosives in town, said the region’s governor, Midjiyawa Bakari. The wounded have been taken to hospitals in Kousseri, he said.
Kenya has sent more Kenya Defence Forces (KDF) soldiers to Somalia in its continuing search, rescue and recovery operation, according to a communication from Chief of Defence Forces General Samson Mwathethe.
The troops from various KDF divisions across the country were assembled and sent to the war-torn country to conduct operations in al-Shabaab bases at El Adde and other towns in the Gedo region.
At least 20 people died and 17 were wounded after a suicide car bomber and gunmen attacked a beachside restaurant-hotel in the capital of Somalia, authorities said. Six attackers were also killed.
Government forces fought a gun battle with the the attackers, who were identified as members of the al-Shabaab terror group. The country’s security minister said the alleged commander of the attack was captured alive by security forces. The commander was not named.