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A clash between Boko Haram fighters and Nigerian troops have left more than a dozen dead.
“So far we have recovered 18 dead bodies from the two villages Bale Shuwa and Bale Kura,” State Emergency Management Agency’s Bello Dambatto told AFP. “The victims were killed while trying to escape the fight between the insurgents and the military.”
An Indian Army operation against militants fighting Indian rule in the Muslim-majority Kashmir Valley killed at least 12 militants on Sunday, the largest one-day death toll of insurgents in recent years, officials in Kashmir said.
At least three soldiers and four civilians also died, and about 70 other people were wounded in the army crackdown in the district of Shopian, according to the Kashmir authorities.
Assad regime forces have retaken control of most of eastern Ghouta, near the capital Damascus, following a major offensive and evacuation deals, regime media and an independent monitor reported on Saturday.
The regime army said in a statement that its forces had recaptured several towns and villages in eastern Ghouta after a “series of battles against terrorists.”
The Libyan eastern-based army on Friday said that its fighter jets have launched airstrikes on Chadian armed groups in southern Libya for the second time in less than two weeks.
“As part of the operations to secure the south, air force fighters targeted a site of Chadian gangs linked to al-Qaeda southwest of the Harug Mountains, causing human and material losses,” the army said in a statement.
Tunisian army troops have clashed with an armed group near a residential compound near the country’s western city of Kasserine.
According to a statement by the official spokesman of the Tunisian Defence Ministry, Belhassen Al-Waslati, the armed group, which was equipped with weapons, came close to one of the residential compounds in Kasserine.