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Fresh clashes in east Ukraine left two soldiers dead Wednesday in a spike in fighting as a key rebel leader announced he planned to create a new “state”.
Kiev said the two servicemen were killed by shelling from Russian-backed rebels some 40km north of the insurgent capital Donetsk, the deadliest daily toll in two weeks.
“The situation in the anti-terrorist operation zone has seriously worsened,” the Ukrainian army said in a statement.
A shootout between soldiers and the PKK terror group in the Lice district of southeastern Turkey’s Diyarbakır province has left one soldier dead and two wounded.
The security forces came into contact with a number of PKK terrorists in the Dibek village of Lice, telling them to surrender but met with gunfire instead.
Russia is verifying intelligence that Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi was killed near Raqqa, Syria, during a bombing raid by its forces in May, the Russian Defense Ministry said.
Al-Baghdadi could have been among about 30 Islamic State commanders killed by the attack on a meeting of the group in the early hours of May 28, the ministry said in an emailed statement. Reports of al-Baghdadi’s death “are being verified by various channels,” it said, without elaborating. The ministry provided no explanation for the delay in reporting the strike, which it said also killed about 300 Islamic State fighters.
Seven Ukrainian soldiers have been killed in just three days in renewed fighting with pro-Russian rebels in the east of the country, the military said Monday.
Four soldiers were killed on Saturday, two Sunday and one on Monday, bringing the death toll to 14 since the beginning of June.
London was rocked by a suspected terror attack tonight with at least two dead after a white van ploughed into pedestrians on London Bridge before three people got out and reportedly stabbed bystanders.
Up to 20 people are feared to be injured on the bridge as horrified witnesses reported seeing bodies strewn on the pavement after the incident at about 10pm.