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A member of Somali rebel group al-Shabaab was killed Sunday by a missile fired by a suspected drone, a rebel commander said, blaming the U.S. for the strike.
Abu Mohamed told The Associated Press that Sahal Iskudhuq, a militant commander who was believed to be close to al-Shabaab’s top leader, was killed when his car was hit by a missile in Somalia’s Lower Shabelle region. The attack took place in a village called Hawai, he said.
Government troops clashed with hardline Muslim rebels opposed to the newly concluded peace deal with a main insurgent group and wounded at least two militants in ongoing fighting.
Regional Army Spokesman Col. Dickson Hermoso said police backed by troops were on the way to arrest commanders of the rebel Bangsamoro Islamic Freedom Fighters (BIFF) when the clash erupted Monday in a vast marshland of southern Maguindanao province.
South Sudanese rebels said that government forces had attacked several of their positions on Friday, a day after a cease-fire was signed that was supposed to bring an end to a monthlong conflict that shook the new country and displaced hundreds of thousands of its citizens.
Analysts cautioned that enforcing a cease-fire would be far more daunting than agreeing to one.
At least three Taliban militants were killed and two others were injured during military operations by Afghan national security forces.
The interior ministry of Afghanistan following a statement, said the operations were conducted during the past 24 hours in Nangarhar, Laghman, Kandahar, Zabul, Ghazni and Helmand provinces of Afghanistan.
Miriam Coronel Ferrer, chairman of the government negotiating panel (L) and MILF Chief Negotiator Mohagher Iqbal (R) sign documents during a press conference at a hotel in Kuala Lumpur on January 25, 2014. AFP PHOTO
The Philippines and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) signed on Saturday the last of the four annexes to the Bangsamoro framework that seeks to end the conflict in Mindanao.
Peace negotiators also signed the addendum on Muslim territorial waters in the southern Philippines in the talks held in Malaysia.
FOUR blasts, including a suicide bombing at the police headquarters, rocked the Egyptian capital and nearby areas Friday, killing six and wounding nearly 100 on the eve of the anniversary of the 2011 uprising.
The first powerful blast was reportedly caused by a suicide attacker, who rammed his explosives-laden vehicle into a security fence around the Cairo Security Directorate, killing four and injuring 76, officials at the Interior and Health Ministry said.
Eleven Islamists fighters were killed and one French soldier was wounded in the latest military operation against militants in Mali’s turbulent desert north, according to security sources.
“The French military operation in the vicinity of Timbuktu has finished. Eleven terrorists were killed, one French soldier was injured, but his life is not in danger,” a French official told the AFP news agency on Friday.