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Islamic State militants staged attacks on Thursday between their Libyan stronghold of Sirte and the city of Misrata, killing five people, officials said.
The jihadist group said it had taken control of several villages in the area following attacks on checkpoints, though reports that local security forces had retreated could not immediately be confirmed.
Israeli aircraft struck five Hamas targets in Gaza on Wednesday in response to mortar rounds fired at Israel from the coastal territory run by the Islamic militant group, the military said.
The military did not specify what was hit, saying only that “Hamas terrorist infrastructure” was targeted in southern Gaza. Palestinian media reported that open areas were struck as well as a guard post. No injuries were reported.
The Libyan army under General Khalifa Haftar on Wednesday began attacking an Islamic State (ISIS) stronghold in Sirte.
The attack goes against an ultimatum issued by the national unity government under Fayez Al-Sarraj to halt all military operations in the region.
Reports are emerging of a series of small scale attacks by Burma Army forces against Kachin Independence Army positions throughout Kachin State, and on the Shan-Kachin State border.
Free Burma Rangers, a frontline humanitarian aid agency, has reported that the attacks have led to “several” civilian casualties including a 60-year-old woman, killed and a 7-year-old girl, badly injured by gunfire.
Kurdish Peshmerga forces in fight with IS militants. Photo: Peshmerga sources/sm
Islamic State militants attacked Kurdish peshmerga forces on multiple fronts in northern Iraq on Tuesday, breaching their defenses and briefly taking over a town, military sources said.
The attacks around the northern city of Mosul are the largest against Kurdish forces in recent months by the insurgents, who have been losing ground to an array of forces in the north and west of the country.
Rebel fire on a hospital in a government-controlled neighbourhood of Syria’s battered second city Aleppo left dozens dead or wounded on Tuesday (May 3), state television reported.
The rockets hit Al-Dabbeet hospital in the Muhafaza district, the television said.
A radical Kurdish militant group on Sunday claimed a suicide bombing in Turkey’s former Ottoman capital of Bursa last week, saying the female assailant had failed to reach her intended target.
The attack on Wednesday evening near Bursa’s famed 14th century Grand Mosque wounded 13 people but caused no fatalities other than the female suicide bomber herself.