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In Libya heavy clashes exploded in Benghazi between Ansar al Sharia jihadists coordinated along with elements of Revolutionary Shura and soldiers.
According to armed forces, “7 attackers have died and dozens have sustained injuries after the attack launched by extremists against a special forces base in Leithy”.
At least 14 people were killed and 11 others injured after Al-Shabaab gunmen attacked a village near Mandera town.
The incident happened in Soko Mbuzi village where non-locals and mostly quarry workers live.
According to a DAILY TRUST report, the Nigerian military has intensified the battle against Boko Haram terrorists.
Over 600 militants has been killed in the past month, PR-Nigeria, media consultants to the security sector said yesterday.
A Libyan official says at least ten civilians were killed when three separate car bombs exploded simultaneously in the eastern coastal city of Darna.
Hamid Albandag, the city’s representative to the internationally-recognized government, says the bombings, which went off Friday evening, set off clashes between militants belonging to the Islamic State’s local affiliate and al-Qaeda-linked militias that continued into Saturday afternoon.
At least 36 militants were killed and tens of others injured in overnight military air raids that lasted until Saturday morning in Egypt’s North Sinai province, a security source said.
“The military airstrikes targeted hideouts of militants south of Sheikh Zuweid and Rafah cities of North Sinai,” Xinhua cited the source as saying. He added that the militants belong to Sinai-based, al-Qaeda-inspired Ansar Bayt al-Maqdis (ABM) group.
Militants killed at least six United Nations soldiers yesterday in northern Mali, in one the deadliest-ever attacks on the world’s most dangerous peacekeeping mission, claimed by al-Qaeda’s north African arm.
MINUSMA, the UN’s force in the volatile west African nation, said its patrol was ambushed around 9:00 am, 45 kilometres (28 miles) south-west of the city of Timbuktu on the road to Goundam.
At least 145 people were killed after Boko Haram militants raided three villages in the northeastern Nigerian state of Borno, witnesses said Thursday.
The Islamist militant group’s attack late Wednesday in the Kukawa fishing village killed 97 people, resident Kawu Aisaye told CNN.