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Venezuela’s army attacked Colombian rebels camped on its side of the border, leaving several people dead, an NGO said on Saturday.
Friday’s attack marked the first time that Venezuela, ruled by socialists for decades until Nicolas Maduro was ousted by US forces in January, has attacked National Liberation Army (ELN) forces camped inside Venezuela, said Javier Tarazona, director of an NGO called Fundaredes.
Multiple drone strikes have hit northern regions of Ethiopia since Thursday, killing at least 25 civilians, including children, witnesses and a medical source told AFP on Friday.
The Ethiopian government has been fighting rebels in the states of Amhara and Tigray over the past month, and has used its large supply of drones to win a decisive advantage.
According to France 24, Algeria will send army units to Niger to protect its energy and economic interests.
The Algerian presidency announced the planned deployment in a statement on Monday, October 26.
Somalia’s government and al-Shabaab militants have issued sharply conflicting accounts of deadly fighting near the southern city of Leego, with both sides claiming to have inflicted heavy losses during a battle on Monday.
The Somali defence ministry said on Tuesday that federal troops had killed 75 militants and wounded 56 others. The al-Qaeda-linked insurgent group claimed it had killed 321 government soldiers during an attack on Turkish-trained troops and an allied militia.
The Israeli military continued a massive operation in the occupied West Bank on Sunday, placing major restrictions on movement ahead of Israel’s upcoming elections.
The operation, which comes in response to a gun attack that killed two Israeli soldiers and wounded three others in Hebron on Friday, has displaced hundreds of Palestinians over the last two days.
The leader of Ethiopia’s Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF) vowed on Friday to continue fighting federal forces despite losing control of major towns, including the regional capital, Mekelle.
“Tigray will remain a graveyard for its enemies,” TPLF chairman Debretsion Gebremichael said in remarks broadcast by Tigrayan television on Friday, Anadolu Agency reported.
Forces loyal to an ousted regional leader captured several key towns in southern Somalia, officials and eyewitnesses said Saturday, dealing a significant blow to the federally backed local government.
Several states in the deeply fragmented country oppose President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud’s control, and in March his government sent troops to oust the head of South West State, Abdiaziz Hassan Mohamed Laftagareen.