Armed Ambazonia separatists carried out a series of coordinated attacks late Wednesday, striking communities in both the West and Northwest regions of Cameroon, leaving soldiers dead, a civilian wounded, and two villagers abducted for ransom.

Panic swept through the village of Mbeve 2, in Galim, Bamboutos Department, after heavily armed separatist fighters stormed the locality under cover of darkness.

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Mali’s army and its Russian mercenary allies surrendered a strategic northern military stronghold to armed rebels on Friday, as Tuareg separatists and jihadists waged a unified front to bring down the country’s junta.

Forces at Mali’s Tessalit military base, a “super-camp” near the Algerian border, surrendered and were scattering southward, an official from the Tuareg-dominated Azawad Liberation Front (FLA) told AFP.

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Mali’s defence minister died after an attack on his house, his family said Sunday, as the army fought a second day of battles with jihadist fighters and separatist rebels near the capital Bamako and other cities, putting the Sahel nation’s ruling junta under severe pressure.

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A civilian was killed and dozens more wounded in overnight Russian attacks across Ukraine, local officials said Saturday.

One person was killed in a strike on Mykolaivka in Ukraine’s eastern Donetsk region, local leader Vadym Filashkin said in a post on social media. Other officials reported at least 26 people had been hurt in attacks across northern and eastern Ukraine, including a strike on port infrastructure in the city of Odesa.

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The United States and Iran began face-to-face negotiations Saturday in Pakistan, days after a fragile, two-week ceasefire was announced, as the war that has killed thousands of people and shaken global markets entered its seventh week.

The White House confirmed the direct nature of the talks, a rare instance of high-level U.S. government engagement with the Iranian government.

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