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A suicide car bombing claimed by the Islamic State (IS) killed at least 40 army recruits and injured 60 others in the Yemeni city of Aden on Monday, medics said, in one of the deadliest attacks yet on the beleaguered government.
The attack occurred as the recruits lined up to enlist for military service at the home of a senior general in the Khor Maksar district of Aden, officials said.
Isis claimed a series of bombings in two Syrian regime bastion cities on Monday, killing more than 140 people.
Attackers set off at least five suicide bombs and two devices planted in cars, the Observatory said, the first assaults of their kind in Tartous, where government ally Russia maintains a naval facility, and Jableh in Latakia province, near a Russian-operated air base.
Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi has announced the launching of an offensive to retake the city of Fallujah after the military told residents yesterday to get ready to leave before fighting started.
The city is a stronghold of the self-proclaimed Islamic State group.
Six 29 Assam Rifles personnel were killed in an ambush laid by militants in Manipur’s Chandel district near the Indo-Myanmar border.
The convey was attacked by heavily armed militants around 1 PM in Joupi Hengshi area.
One Ukrainian soldier was killed and another injured in fresh fighting between pro-Russian rebels and government forces in the country’s separatist east, the military said Sunday.
A series of truce agreements have helped reduce violence in the region, although sporadic clashes persist.
Taliban leader Mullah Akhtar Mansour has been killed in a US drone strike, a senior commander with the militant group has said.
Mullah Abdul Rauf told The Associated Press on Sunday that Mansour died in the strike late Friday night.
Sudanese media say fierce clashes between two clans of one tribe this week in the country’s southern West Kordofan State, have left dozens dead.
The independent Shorouk TV said on Friday at least 37 people died in the fighting, which took place on Tuesday, between the branches of the Hamar tribe, an ethnic Arab tribe.