In what appeared to be a major victory against the Boko Haram sect, the Joint Military Task Force confirmed, yesterday, that the sect’s spokesman, Abu Qaqa, has been killed, while two other members were arrested after a shootout between the sect and security operatives.

There were, however, different accounts on how the encounter took place.

According to one account, quoting an official of the task force, the shooting occurred yesterday morning in Mariri, a town southeast of Kano, where soldiers stopped a vehicle with the sect spokesman, the commander, the spokesman’s wife and their children, the official said.

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Seven Turkish soldiers were killed and 63 others were wounded on Tuesday when a Turkish military convoy was hit and came under fire in a road ambush by PKK terrorists in the eastern province of Bingol.

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Officials in Somali government says the national army allied with the African Union forces seized several strategic positions that had been under the control of the al-Shabaab for the past three years.

Mohamed Farah, the spokesman of Somali forces in Jubba regions, told Shabelle Media by phone that the allied forces took full control of the last al-Shabaab pockets located on the outskirts of west of the port town of Kismayo during armed confrontations over the last two days.

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Three Yemeni soldiers of the Central Security were killed and several others were wounded in a blast that targeted a commander of the Central Security in Al-Mukala of Hadhramout governorate on Sunday, local sources affirmed.

The sources said that violent clashes between soldiers of the Central Security and unknown armed men followed the explosion, pointing out that the situations are still intense, particularly around a military of the Central Security in Al-Mukla.

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Syria’s state media said the Syrian troops have fully “purged” the Midan district in the northern city of Aleppo on Sunday from armed militias.

SANA news agency said the army eliminated all the insurgents in Midan, adding that scores of other armed men were killed in a qualitative operation by the army at the Fardous district.

Also in Aleppo, the army troops have killed many “terrorists” and confiscated satellite phones while raiding a hideout of armed insurgents at al-Arqoub district in the crucial northern city.

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Seventy-five militants from the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) have been killed in operations in the eastern province of Hakkari between Sept. 8 and today, the local governor’s office has announced.

Four security personnel were killed in the clashes, the announcement added.

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At least 10 soldiers were killed and another 50 were reported missing after friendly fire caused a South Sudanese military boat to sink on the Nile river, the army said Saturday.

“It was an accident. The boat was travelling at night and passed before a (control) post at Lul, which tried to stop the boat. When it did not stop they fired at the boat and it sank,” army spokesman Philip Aguer told AFP, adding that there were about 170 soldiers on board.

“Ten bodies were retrieved from the water… there are about 50 still missing,” he said, adding that 112 survivors were picked up following the accident on Wednesday.

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