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More than 70 al-Shabaab militants were killed and 30 others captured in battle with Somalia’s Puntland forces in the past four days, Mohamud Hassan, Puntland Minister of Information, has said.
Hassan who made the disclosure on Monday in Mogadishu, said the battle took place in Suuj Valley in Nugal region, Northern Somalia.
Kenya Defense Force soldiers have killed 13 more al-Shabaab militants in Somalia, bringing the total number of the militants killed to 34 since Saturday.
KDF Spokesman Colonel David Obonyo says KDF soldiers operating under Amisom troops engaged the militants at Sarira, in Lacta Belt, about 30km North of Ras Kamboni after being tipped off about a planned attack on the troops.
The Tunisian army fought militants in the west of the country on Saturday in clashes that left a soldier wounded, the defence ministry said.
“A soldier was wounded during an exchange of fire [on] Saturday morning between army units and a terrorist group at Jabal Samama” in the Kasserine region, Lieutenant Colonel Belhassen Oueslati told AFP.
At least 13 Egyptian policemen were killed after a mortar shell struck a police checkpoint in Egypt’s North Sinai, announced the Ministry of Interior.
The attack, which IS-affiliated Ansar Bait Al-Maqdis (Wilayat Sinai) claimed responsibility for, left at least seven others injured and targeted the Safa checkpoint in El-Arish.
Thirty insurgents in Somalia’s Al-Qaeda-aligned Shebab jihadist group were killed Wednesday in heavy clashes in the south and northeast of the country, Kenya’s armed forces and local authorities said separately.
In the first incident, the Kenya Defence Force (KDF) said it had thwarted an assault on a military camp at Afmadhow in the Lower Juba area in southern Somalia, killing 19 rebels and seizing a haul of weapons.
Violent clashes between soldiers loyal to Tobruk government and jihadist militants are referred also today in Benghazi, in Libya.
Military sources refer about intense artillery bombardment on army positions that caused at least 7 wounded, some of them in serious condition.
Two female suicide bombers killed 22 people Wednesday at a mosque outside the northeastern Nigerian city of Maiduguri, a military spokesman said.
The attack, which also wounded 18 people, occurred during morning prayers in the village of Ummarari, four miles from the center the capital of Borno state and heartland of Boko Haram.