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Forces in western Libya are preparing to advance on the city of Sirte, seized by DAESH last year, their spokesman said, pushing ahead with plans for a counter-attack after the group made territorial gains in the last week.
The fighters based in the city of Misrata would like international logistical support to help retake what has become DAESH’s most important base outside Syria and Iraq, but will not wait for it before launching the operation, they said.
Officers from the armed opposition faction of the Sudan People’s Liberation Movement (SPLM) in Opposition in Northern Bahr el Ghazal state have defected and formed their own faction.
The officers previously under the overall leadership of the First Vice-President, Riek Machar, have asserted that the 2015 peace agreement signed with president Salva Kiir, has not addressed the cause of the war.
Scores of people were on Saturday killed and several others injured in Mongalla, a Central Equatoria state town located along the Juba-Bor road.
Multiple sources told Sudan Tribune at least three people were feared dead and more than 20 others were injured.
“We lost three soldiers and counted eight attackers. They [attackers] are identified as member of Mundari tribe,” a military officer in Mongalla told Sudan Tribune by phone.
Al-Shabaab has claimed full responsibility for a deadly suicide car bomb attack on the headquarters of Somalia’s traffic police in the capital, Mogadishu on Monday morning.
A bomber drove his car packed with explosives at the gates of the police compound in Shangani district, and then followed a heavy exchange of gunfire between attackers and the security guards.
Tribes of deceased Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi have sworn allegiance to Isis: Site refers it.
Eight plainclothes police officers were killed on Sunday morning in an armed attack that targeted a checkpoint operation near Helwan police station, according to a statement issued on the Interior Ministry’s official Facebook page directly after the attack.
“On Sunday morning while plainclothes officers from Helwan police station were operating a checkpoint in a minibus near their station on Omar Abdel Aziz Street, four anonymous militants driving a truck opened fire at the officers,” the statement read.
Armed militants attacked a major Chevron oil and gas facility off Nigeria’s southern coast, the military said Friday, and the U.S.-based multinational said it was forced to shut production there but its exports will continue.
A new group called the Niger Delta Avengers said it bombed Chevron’s Okan platform on Wednesday and warned international companies that “the Nigerian military can’t protect your facilities.”