Soldiers and paramilitary forces repulsed an attack by the Islamic State-linked Bangsamoro Islamic Freedom Fighters (BIFF) on an Army base in Shariff Aguak town, Maguindanao province, on Wednesday.

Lt. Col. Anhouvic Atilano, spokesperson of the Army’s 6th Infantry Division (ID), said an undetermined number of BIFF members fired rifle grenades at an Army checkpoint in Barangay Labu-labu at past 10 p.m., leading to the 20-minute fierce clash with government troops that caused panic among local residents.

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At least 16 people, including two civilians and three Turkish soldiers were killed and 12 others sustained injuries in a car bomb blast in Syria’s border town of Ras al-Ain on Thursday.

The checkpoint was manned by the town’s security forces and a Turkish-backed faction, news agency AFP reported, citing Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.

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Ten Nigerian troops were killed and one was taken hostage in clashes with IS-linked jihadists in northeast Nigerian Borno state, according to two security sources.

Clashes erupted on Monday when a team of soldiers stormed a camp of Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP) in Alagarno village in Damboa district.

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Internal infighting between factions of the holdout Sudan Liberation Movement/Army - of Abdel Wahid al-Nur (SLM/A-AW) over the control of gold mines and attacks against the government forces have displaced more than 27,000 people.

On 1 December, the UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres submitted a report to the Security Council on the situation in Sudan ahead of a briefing on the UN Integrated Transition Assistance Mission in Sudan (UNITAMS) and the AU/UN Hybrid Operation in Darfur (UNAMID) on 8 December.

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Indian officials say China is assisting rebel groups that have stepped up attacks on its border with Myanmar in recent months, opening another front in the conflict between two nations already engaged in a deadly standoff in the Himalayas.

Armed groups in Myanmar — including the United Wa State Army and the Arakan Army, which was designated a terrorist organization this year — are acting as Beijing’s proxies by supplying weapons and providing hideouts to insurgent groups in India’s northeastern states, according to Indian officials with knowledge of the situation, who asked not to be identified due to rules for speaking with the media.

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