A group of 172 Taliban militants surrendered to Afghan National Defense and Security Forces in Herat and Ghor provinces.
The Ministry of Defense (MoD) said in a statement, 160 of the militants surrendered in Shahrak district of Ghor.
Tuesday, 11 February, 2020
Afghanistan: 172 Taliban militants surrender to Afghan forces in Herat and Ghor
Monday, 10 February, 2020
Nigeria: Boko Haram kills 30 travelers and abduct women and children in a fresh attack in Auno
No less than 30 travelers have been killed in a fresh attack at Auno, a town that is 20 kilometres from Maiduguri, the Borno state capital.
According to Dogo Shettima, a Special Assistant to Borno Governor, Babagana Zulum, the travelers were gruesomely murdered, and 30 women including children, were kidnapped, as Boko Haram insurgents unleashed mayhem in the state on Sunday, February 9, 2020.
Sunday, 9 February, 2020
Iraq: 1 Iraqi soldier and ISIS members killed in clashes in Salahuddin
An Iraqi soldier was killed and another wounded in clashes that followed an attack by members of the so-called Islamic State on an army post in Salahuddin province on Saturday.
Islamic State sleeper cells have intensified terrorist activity in recent weeks, launching attacks on an almost daily basis especially in rural areas of provinces to the north of Baghdad and south of the Kurdistan Region.
Syria: Regime forces enter rebel-held Saraqeb town in Idlib province
Syrian regime’s troops entered a strategic town in the country’s last rebel stronghold on Feb. 6 after fierce clashes with opposition fighters.
The push by Bashar Assad’s forces into towns and villages in the northwestern Idlib province has caused the displacement of more than a half-million people in just over two months, compounding a humanitarian disaster in the region packed with internally displaced people.
Friday, 7 February, 2020
Yemen: Qassim al-Rimi leader of al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) killed in US military operation, said Donald Trump
President Donald Trump said on Thursday that US forces have killed Qassim al-Rimi, the leader of al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP), in an operation inside Yemen.
Al-Rimi claimed responsibility for last year’s deadly shooting at US Naval Air Station Pensacola in Florida, where a Saudi aviation trainee killed three US sailors.