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A Pakistan Taliban splinter group claimed responsibility for the deadly suicide attack in Lahore that killed over 60 people and injured over 300 on Sunday.
“We claim responsibility for the attack on the Christians as they were celebrating their religious festival,” spokesman for the Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan, Jamaat ul Ahrar, Eshansullah Ehsan said.
Turkish fighter jets have heavily pounded the Islamic State (IS) position near Mosul, in the north of Iraq.
In response to a recent IS offensive in northern Iraq against the Turkish troops, Turkish warplanes carried out airstrikes against four IS positions in the area on Saturday.
At least 59 people were killed and more than 200 injured when a suicide bomb ripped through the parking space of a crowded park in Lahore where Christians were celebrating Easter Sunday.
Dozens of ambulances were seen racing to the park, situated near the centre of the city with many women and children among the dead and wounded.
Tense of fighting is mounting in the north-eastern region of Bari after fighters from al-Shabaab reportedly spotted in the remote coastal village of Bandarbeyla, reports said.
Heavily armed forces from Puntland state of Somalia moved to the area, to prevent Al shabaab from expanding their presence into the region, according to sources spoke to Radio Shabelle.
A spokesman for the Egyptian army says it has killed 60 Islamic militants in northern Sinai, where armed forces have been battling fighters affiliated with the Islamic State group for two years.
Brig. Gen. Mohammed Samir said in a statement posted on the army’s official Facebook page on Friday that anti-terrorism forces backed by fighter jets targeted “terrorists’ hideouts,” killing 60 militants and injuring 40 others. He says that 27 4×4 trucks and 32 weapons depots were destroyed.
A triple suicide bombing on a Saudi-led coalition military camp in southern Yemen killed 22 people Friday, including civilians, witnesses and medical officials said.
The Islamic State affiliate claimed responsibility for the attacks in a short statement carrying the name of the group’s news agency, Amaq.
A man wearing a suicide belt walked into an Iraqi soccer stadium Friday and blew himself up — killing at least 25 people and wounding 90 more, security officials said.
A crowd had gathered for a ceremony to mark a championship for a popular local soccer team when the bomb exploded, the head of the Babil province security committee, Baydhan al Hamdani, told CNN.