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Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the leader of the militant group Isis, was killed on Saturday in a US special forces raid in north-western Syria, President Donald Trump announced from the White House on Sunday.
Trump announced the death Sunday, after hinting at the news on Twitter on Saturday night, tweeting, “Something very big has just happened!”
An al-Qaeda leader was killed and another wounded during an anti-terror raid in Tunisia on Sunday, according to the country’s defense ministry.
Tunisian armed forces and national guardsmen led the operation against al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) in the mountainous Kasserine region near the Algerian border, ministry spokesman Mohamed Zekri told AFP.
Forces of Libya’s UN-backed government on Thursday announced the killing of 16 soldiers of the east-based army in southern Tripoli.
“Our brave forces continue to control Al-Yarmouk camp (southern Tripoli), after luring militias of the war criminal Haftar (eastern-based army), killing 16 of their troops and taking over three of their armored vehicles,” the UN-backed government forces said in a statement.
Burundi’s security forces killed 14 gunmen who crossed into its northwestern region from the Democratic Republic of Congo, in an attack that shows resistance against President Pierre Nkurunziza is increasing.
The forces confiscated some rifles from the men in Bubanza province on Tuesday, deputy Burundi police spokesman Moise Nkurunziza told reporters in the commercial capital, Bujumbura, on Wednesday.
Russian, Syrian security forces aim to push Kurdish fighters back from the border as part of deal reached with Turkey.
Russian military police deployed on the streets of Syria’s northeast border town of Kobane on Thursday under a deal with Turkey to drive out Kurdish fighters.