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French anti-terrorist forces operating in the Sahel region have attacked terrorist targets in northern Mali, notably striking a mobile column of the Al-Mourabitoun group there, a Defence Ministry statement said.
The operation took place two days ago in the Menaka region of Mali where troops from the “Barkhane Operation” intercepted an armed column of fighters, killing 10 militants in a four-hour fire-fight, the statement said.
Turkish security forces have killed 54 Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) militants over three days of operations in the country’s southeast, a local broadcaster reported Friday.
The military counter-terrorist operations were conducted in Sirnak Province, targeting the towns of Silopi and Cizre, according to security sources quoted by the channel A Haber.
No Ukrainian soldiers were killed but three were wounded in the Donbass conflict zone over the last 24 hours, head of the press center of the Anti-Terrorist Operation (ATO) headquarters, Colonel Oleksandr Motuzianyk said at a briefing on Thursday.
Britain has launched air strikes on Syria, hours after MPs overwhelmingly endorsed David Cameron’s plan to bomb what he called the “medieval murderers” of Isis.
Four Tornado bombers took off from the RAF Akrotiri air base in Cyprus and struck targets in Syria, news agencies reported, quoting government officials.
Russian air strikes may have killed more than 40 people and wounded dozens more in Syria, according to reports.
Jets bombed the rebel-controlled town of Ariha in northwest Syria earlier today, with the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights claiming at least 60 people had been killed and wounded in the attack.
