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About 50 militants of al-Qaeda’s Indian branch, including two senior leaders, have been killed in US drone strikes over the past few months, the outfit said on Sunday.
The al-Qaeda in the Indian Subcontinent (AQIS) says a series of drone attacks have killed nearly 50 of its members, including deputy head Ustad Ahmad Farooq and Qari Imran, the group’s central council member and in charge of al-Qaeda in Afghanistan.
Some 500 Houthi militias have been killed in the Najran and Jazan sectors since the Operation Decisive Storm began 17 days ago, a Ministry of Defense source said on Saturday.
At least ten soldiers of the Libyan army were killed and more than 40 others wounded in fierce clashes in Libya’s second largest city of Benghazi, medical and military sources told Xinhua on Saturday.
“Benghazi medical center on Friday received ten bodies of army soldiers, while the center received about 44 wounded soldiers of varying degrees of severity,” a source in the Benghazi medical center told Xinhua on condition of anonymity.
Baloch Liberation Front militants stormed a workers’ camp early Saturday, killing at least 20 sleeping laborers in the southwestern Pakistani province of Balochistan.
District Police officer Imran Qureshi told NBC News at least 40 armed men stormed the camp, checked IDs and killed those not identified as Baloch. Three other workers were injured. The attack happened at a camp built for laborers working on Sohrab Dam in the Gagdan area.
152 ISIS gang members have been killed in the ongoing clashes between the YPG/YPJ forces and the ISIS in the villages to the south and west of Til Temir, while a tank of the gangs was destroyed in addition to many other vehicles, including a bomb-laden one.
According to the information obtained by Hawar News Agency from the YPG sources, ISIS gangs launched on 8 April night an extensive attack on the villages to the south and west of Til Temir. The clashes that broke out following the strong response of the YPG/YPJ forces, continued till last night.
At least 40 Houthi militants were killed in a car bombing Friday in Yemen’s southern Shabwah province, a tribal source said.
“A booby-trapped car exploded at the Bejan police station in the province, killing 40 Houthis” the source told The Anadolu Agency.
Rival Central African Republic (CAR) groups have signed a ceasefire deal in an effort to provide the country with a political solution, according to a statement by Kenya’s State House where the agreement was signed.
Kenya’s President Uhuru Kenyatta hosted the signing of the accord on Wednesday between Anti-Balaka leader Joachim Kokate and former president and ex-Seleka leader Michel Djotodia, which included a deal “to stop hostilities” and another to “open a new chapter of political stability in their country” by adhering to the transitional roadmap, the statement said.