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Bria in the Central African Republic is once again experiencing clashes between anti-balaka and ex-seleka militants.
The number of those killed still remains unclear for now.
Russian air strikes on a military convoy heading for Deir ez-Zor in western Syria are reported to have killed over 200 Daesh fighters and destroyed military vehicles and weapons belonging to the terrorist group.
The Russian defence ministry confirmed the attack in a statement today: “The Russian Air Force destroyed another large column of ISIS [Daesh] fighters that was heading to the area of the city of Deir ez-Zor, where international terrorists are trying to regroup and equip their last base in Syria.”
Prime Minister Haidar al-Abadi today order the Iraqi Army and its allies to start a planned offensive in the city of Tal Afar, which is still in the hands of the Islamic State (Daesh in Arabic).
The reports say that police agents and soldiers attacked the city in northwestern Iraq and caused considerable damage to the Daesh.
The Lebanese army launched an offensive on Saturday against an Islamic State enclave on the northeast border with Syria as the Lebanese Shi’ite group Hezbollah announced an assault on the militants from the Syrian side of the frontier.
The Lebanese army operation got underway at 5 a.m. (0200 GMT), targeting Islamic State positions near the town of Ras Baalbek with rockets, artillery, and helicopters, a Lebanese security source said. The area is the last part of the Lebanese-Syrian frontier under insurgent control.
Clashes between the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) and its offshoot, the Bangsamoro Islamic Freedom Fighters (BIFF), took place on Friday and Saturday, with six fighters from the original group killed.
The fighting between the two groups began about two weeks ago in the marshy farmlands around Maguindanao’s Datu Salibo town, regional police spokeswoman Tara Leah Cuyco said.