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Egyptian military officials say troops have killed 16 members of an al-Qaeda-inspired militant group in the restive Sinai Peninsula.
The officials say four leading members of Ansar Beit al-Maqdis were arrested during the operations, which were still underway early Tuesday.
Libya’s Islamist militant group Ansar al-Shariah has declared an “Islamic emirate” in the eastern city of Derna and pledged allegiance to Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), according to media reports coming out from the North African Country.
A video posted on YouTube shows a military parade in Derna with militants holding ISIS flags and shouting pro-ISIS ISIS slogans.
There are strong indications that the Nigerian troops have overrun Michika and Gulak in Madagali Local Government Areas of Adamawa State.
The states had in the past one month been in the hands of the dreaded Boko Haram insurgents.
Somalia’s militant Islamist group al-Shabaab has abandoned its last major stronghold of Barawe after an assault by Somali and African Union forces, residents and military commanders said.
The militants pulled out of the city late Saturday under the cover of darkness after the opposing forces camped for three days on the outskirts of the port city located 130 miles south of Mogadishu, said resident Ibrahim Abdi.
Suspected Islamists have killed at least nine United Nations peacekeepers from Niger in northeastern Mali, in the deadliest attack ever on the mission, military sources say.
The UN mission did not immediately hold any armed group responsible, but a Nigerian officer from the mission said the attack had been carried out by the Movement for Oneness and Jihad in West Africa (MUJAO), an al-Qaeda-linked militia behind numerous attacks in recent years.
Seven Libyan soldiers were killed and 50 wounded in a double suicide bombing and clashes in the eastern city of Benghazi on Thursday, an army commander said.
Libya is being racked by violence as the armed groups which helped topple Muammar Gaddafi in 2011 turn their guns on each other in a struggle to dominate politics and the country’s vast oil resources.
South Sudan army said it has deployed battalion of troops along it border with Sudan following repeated rebels raids on its territory.
The move, army spokesperson Col. Philip Aguer said, comes in awake of a series of attacks by rebels who allegedly plan and execute their activities from its northern neighbor.