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Kenya’s president says nine Kenyan soldiers were killed when extremists attacked their patrol car in neighboring Somalia.
President Uhuru Kenyatta mourned the soldiers who were killed Sunday evening in an al-Shabaab attack in Dhobley, Somalia. Al-Shabaab claimed responsibility for the attack, saying it had killed and wounded 15 soldiers, according to the SITE Intelligence Group, which monitors extremist groups.
Military-air forces of Iraq attacked the positions of terrorists of the Islamic State in Syria.
This was announced by the government of Iraq Sunday, May 6, reports Reuters.
Military confrontations have continued between Yemen’s National Army forces and the Houthi militia in several battle fronts in the northern province of Saada on Saturday.
Military sources confirmed to Al Arabiya that the most violent confrontations took place in east of Saada.
The army forces were supported by Arab Coalition jets.
Renewed clashes between the Myanmar Army and Arakan Army troops near Kone Pyin village in Chin’s State Paletwa Township on Thursday left four Myanmar Army soldiers dead and five others injured, according to an Arakan Army (AA) spokesman.
Khine Thukha, the AA spokesman, told The Irrawaddy on Friday that a clash happened on the morning of May 3 when Myanmar Army troops from Light Infantry Battalion 541, based in Minbya Township, Rakhine State, entered into AA-controlled areas along the Kaladan River.
Suspected Islamist militants killed at least 16 Tuareg civilians in attacks in northern Mali, days after 40 Tuareg were killed in similar raids on neighbouring villages, local authorities said.
The attacks occurred on Tuesday in Tindibawen, east of Menaka near the Niger border and in a nearby village, Menaka Mayor Nanout Kotia told Reuters.