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The first units of Armenian interior troops will be sent to Tavush province on August 23 to start protection of Armenian border with Azerbaijan.
Tavush has an extensive border with Azerbaijan, the chief of staff of the Police Force Armen Ghukasyan told reporters on August 21.
A series of coordinated attacks against security forces hit Russia’s volatile autonomous republic of Chechnya on Monday with authorities claiming to have killed at least five assailants - all of them children.
Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) claimed responsibility for the spate of violence, the SITE monitoring group reported, citing the group’s Amaq website.
Two PKK terrorists, who opened fire on a gendarmerie station, were neutralized Saturday in southeastern Sirnak province, according to a security official.
Turkish authorities often use the word “neutralized” in their statements to imply the terrorists in question either surrendered or were killed or captured.
Eight PKK terrorists have been killed in Turkish airstrikes in the country’s southeastern and eastern provinces, and in northern Iraq, the military said yesterday.
The Turkish General Staff in a message on Twitter confirmed that its fighter jets carried out airstrikes in northern Iraq’s Zap region, and in the rural areas of southeastern Şırnak and eastern Van provinces during the weekend.
SITE Intelligence Group says the Mali branch of al-Qaeda has claimed responsibility for a suicide bombing on French forces which officials said killed four civilians in the northern city of Gao.
The U.S.-based monitoring group said Monday the al-Qaeda-linked militants, known by the acronym JNIM, said the suicide attack, along with another Friday on the G5 Sahel headquarters, was a message to the “French and their African allies” referring to the African Union Summit in Mauritania which French President Emmanuel Macron is attending Monday.