A truck bomb exploding Saturday morning at a security checkpoint in Mogadishu, Somalia, killed at least 90 people.
According to the country’s foreign minister, the dead include students and two Turkish nationals.
Saturday, 28 December, 2019
Somalia: At least 90 dead in Mogadishu truck bombing, suspects on al-Shabaab terrorists
Friday, 27 December, 2019
Nigeria: Islamic State West African Province (ISWAP) terrorist group executes 11 Christian hostages
An affiliate of the Islamic State says it executed 11 Christians in Nigeria in retaliation for the killings of leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi and his spokesman earlier this year, according to Agence France-Presse.
The terrorist group released a video on Thursday through its online news agency, Telegram, that reportedly shows masked militants from the Islamic State West African Province (ISWAP) shooting and stabbing 11 blindfolded men, the AFP and Reuters report.
Libya: Haftar airstrikes on Al-Zawiya kill and injure civilians
Al-Zawiya Educational Hospital said Thursday that it had received two bodies of civilians killed in airstrikes by Khalifa Haftar’s warplanes on Al-Zawiya, adding that eight injured persons had also arrived at the hospital and that five of them were admitted to the intensive care unit.
Wednesday, 25 December, 2019
Israel: Israeli airstrikes target Iranian targets in Iraq
Israeli military’s chief said Wednesday that Israel “has carried out actions” in Iraq to foil convoys of weapons that could be used against Israel.
Aviv Kohavi made the rare acknowledgment during a speech in a conference in the Interdisciplinary Center Herzliya, a private research college outside Tel Aviv.
Tuesday, 24 December, 2019
Syria: Car bomb attack kills 8 people in Suluk
A woman and a child were among eight people killed in a car bomb attack in a Turkish-held border town in northern Syria, the defence ministry said.
The car exploded on Monday in the village of Suluk about 20 kilometres (12 miles) southeast of the Syrian border town of Tal Abyad, the ministry said.