The death toll from a car bomb at a marketplace in Somalia’s capital Mogadishu has risen to 34 with 52 injured, said a police officer.
Many of the dead were carried away by their relatives soon after the blast, said Captain Mohamed Hussein.
Iraq: Iraqi forces launch offensive to liberate western Mosul from Islamic State (IS)
US-backed Iraqi forces have launched a large-scale military operation to dislodge Islamic State (IS) militants from the western half of Mosul city, which has been in the hands of extremists since 2014.
Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi announced the start of the operation on state TV, saying government forces were moving to “liberate the people of Mosul from Daesh oppression and terrorism forever”, using the Arabic acronym for IS.
Saturday, 18 February, 2017
Algeria: Algerian troops kill 14 militants in clashes in the Bouira province
Algerian troops have killed at least 14 armed militants in the past two days in an operation in an eastern region known as a former stronghold for hardline militants, the Defence Ministry said in a statement yesterday.
Troops ambushed and killed five militants on Wednesday and have since killed nine more during the operation by the army in the Bouira province, around 70 kilometres east of the capital Algiers, the statement said.
Nigeria: Boko Haram attack on Maiduguri foiled by army, deaths reported
The Nigerian Army on Thursday evening foiled a Boko Haram attack that targeted Maiduguri, the capital of Borno State in the country’s north-east.
The attack according to local media sources was two-pronged. The face-to-face combat between the army and insurgents before the detonation of three suicide bombs.
Friday, 17 February, 2017
Afghanistan: Islamic State (IS) terrorists kill 17 soldiers in Nangarhar province
At least 17 soldiers of the Afghanistan National Army (ANA) were reportedly been killed late on Thursday night in the country’s eastern Nangarhar province.
Media reports in Kabul quoted Ahmad Ali Hazrat, chief of Nangarhar provincial council, as saying that the Islamic State (IS) group was behind the attack on the security posts located in the Dih Bala district.
Pakistan: Pakistani forces kill and arrest dozens of militants after Islamic State shrine bombing
Pakistani para-military soldiers stand alert after a deadly suicide attack at the shrine of famous Sufi Lal Shahbaz Qalandar in Sehwan, Pakistan, on Thursday, Feb. 16, 2017. An Islamic State suicide bomber targeted worshippers at a famous shrine in southern Pakistan on Thursday, killing dozens of worshippers and left hundreds of people wounded, officials said.
Thursday, 16 February, 2017
Turkey: 3 Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) militants killed in clashes with army in Tunceli province
Turkish security forces have killed three militants of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) in clashes in the eastern province of Tunceli, security sources stated on Feb. 16.
Sources, speaking on condition of anonymity due to restrictions on talking to media, said the operation against the PKK in Tunceli’s Pülümür district began on Feb. 11 and ended on Feb. 16.