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The Tunisian army launched a “huge” land and air operation against Islamist militants hiding in remote mountains near the Algerian border, the armed forces spokesman announced on Friday, AFP reported.
“A huge operation, with ground and air units, was launched at dawn,” he told Mosaique FM radio.
Algeria’s army has reinforced its forces along the eastern border with Tunisia, Interior Minister Daho Ould Kablia said on Thursday, days after the killing of eight Tunisian soldiers.
Eight Tunisian soldiers were found with their throats cut on Monday after an ambush by jihadist militants in Mount Chaambi, an area near the border with Algeria.
A total of 94 communist rebels surrendered, were killed or arrested last month, the military claimed Thursday.
The Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP), however, also suffered with 29 soldiers killed and wounded in the same period.
Sudan’s Foreign Ministry says a rebel ambush on an army convoy has killed nine soldiers.
The convoy was transporting fuel supplies for the U.N. mission in Abyei, a disputed region between Sudan and South Sudan.
Militants belonging to the Pakistani Taliban and disguised in police uniforms launched an attack, late on Monday, on a prison in Dera Ismail Khan, a city in Pakistan’s Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa Province, and managed to free at least 247 prisoners.
Banned Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan, or TTP, used rocket-propelled grenades and machine guns to launch the attack on the prison, which is located near South Waziristan, Pakistan’s lawless tribal region along the border with Afghanistan, news reports said.
Attacks mainly targeting Shiite-majority areas of Iraq killed at least 54 people on Monday, while security forces killed 10 militants, officials said, as the interior ministry warned of civil war.
More than 800 people have now been killed in violence so far this month, according to AFP figures based on security and medical sources–an average of upwards of 27 a day.
On Sunday, Syria forces gained control over most of the western city’s Khaldiyeh area, where they had already captured the Khalid bin Walid Mosque on Saturday.
The Syrian army says the militants had planted tens of explosive devices inside the mosque building.
