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Gunmen have killed five Egyptian policemen at a checkpoint in the Sinai Peninsula, the interior ministry said Thursday, in the latest attack claimed by the Daesh terrorist group.
The incident happened on Wednesday night in North Sinai province where security forces are battling a extremist insurgency.
“Unidentified gunmen opened fire on security forces at El-Etlawi square in the centre of El-Arish,” the ministry said in a statement, referring to the provincial capital.
Islamic State militants set fire on Thursday to oil storage tanks in a fresh assault on Libya’s Ras Lanuf terminal and the group threatened further attacks.
The militants drove into the oil storage farm early in the morning and clashed with Petroleum Facilities Guards before retreating and firing from a distance to set four tanks on fire, National Oil Corporation (NOC) spokesman Mohamed al-Harari said.
The rebel Sudan Liberation Movement (SLM-AW) led by Abdel-Wahid al-Nur said its fighters have inflected heavy losses on the Sudanese army and repulsed a large-scale attack it carried out in Jebel Marra, Central Darfur state but the latter dismissed the claims.
In a statement released Tuesday evening, SLM-AW spokesperson Shihab al-Din Ahmed said their fighters repelled the government offensive which began last Friday, pointing the latter used war-planes, heavy artillery and mortars in the attack.
Clashes between Mozambique Government forces and the opposition Mozambican National Resistance, or RENAMO, have forced an increasing number of people to flee Mozambique and seek asylum in Malawi over the last few weeks, the United Nations refugee agency cautioned today.
Kenyan air force launched an aerial bombardment against al-Shabaab strongholds in Gedo region, hours after heavily armed militants stormed KDF base in El Adde area early on Friday.
A total of 27 people have died in an Al-Qaeda attack on a luxury hotel in Burkina Faso.
Armed terrorists seized the Splendid Hotel and a nearby cafe in the capital Ouagadougou after letting off bombs last night, with people from around 18 different countries caught up in the assault.
Around 33 people were wounded. Around 150 people were evacuated, the French ambassador tweeted.
Troops from the self-declared state of Somaliland have attacked an army base belonging to Khatumo state in northern Somalia, a minister said.
Confirming the incident, the deputy minister of the interior minister of Khatumo state Abshir Abdulaziz said in an interview with somali radio shabelle that their troops clashed with Somaliland soldiers at an area near Sahdheer town.