At least 15 people were killed and more than 70 injured when two Taliban suicide bombers attacked churches in Lahore on Sunday, sparking mob violence in which two other suspected militants died.
Sunday, 15 March, 2015
Pakistan: 15 people killed in Taliban attack on Lahore churches, claimed by Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan’s Jamaat-ul-Ahrar faction
China: China sends fighter jets to Burma border after bomb kills four people
China sent fighter jets to patrol its border with Burma after a bomb dropped by a Burmese warplane killed four Chinese in southwestern Yunnan province, state media reported Saturday.
The bomb hit a sugarcane field in Lincang city on Friday, killing four workers and injuring nine others, China’s official news agency Xinhua said.
Saturday, 14 March, 2015
India: 5 People’s Liberation Guerrilla Army Maoists killed in encounter, claim Jharkhand Police
At least one suspected Maoist was killed in an encounter with the security forces in Jharkhand’s Gumla district on Friday. The police, however, claimed they have killed four-five rebels.
“I was leading the team comprising district police, CoBRA and Jharkhand Jaguar. The encounter, which took place near Sargaon village, began at 7.30 am and lasted two hours. One body has been recovered. I think four-five Naxals must have died, but they ran away with the bodies,” said Gumla SDPO Mohd Arshi.
Friday, 13 March, 2015
Iraq: Peshmerga Forces free several villages south of Kirkuk
Wasta Rasul who is a Peshmerga Commander in Kirkuk said today that violent clashes erupted against terrorists of the so called the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant in al- Noor compound south of Kirkuk, stressing that the Kurdistan Peshmerga forces liberated several villages during operations today.
Sudan: Army repels new Sudan People’s Liberation Movement - North (SPLM-N) rebel attack in South Kordofan
The Sudanese troops repulsed an attack by the rebel Sudan People’s Liberation Movement - North (SPLM-N) fighters on Kuldegi town in South Kordofan, a military spokesperson said Thursday.
Following the failure of peace negotiations in December 2014, the warring parties in South Kordofan resumed the fighting as every side accuse the other of carrying ground or air attacks.
Thursday, 12 March, 2015
Libya: Islamic State (IS) claims responsibility for blast in Tripoli
The Islamic State group’s affiliate in Libya has claimed responsibility for an explosion at a police station in the country’s capital, Tripoli.
The blast early on Thursday caused panic among residents but no one was hurt.
Syria: More than 50 soldiers and islamist terrorists dead in battle in Latakia province
More than 50 regime soldiers and Islamist terrorists were killed as they battled over a strategic hilltop in Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s home province, a monitoring group said on Thursday.
Government forces clashed with Al-Qaeda-affiliated terrorists backed by other armed Islamic terror groups in a village in Latakia province in the northwest, AFP reported.