Somali security forces on Monday killed at least seven al-Shabaab militants and injured a number of others following heavy fighting with insurgents in Bay region, in the south part of the Horn of Africa nation.

Burhakaba District Commissioner in Bay region Mohamed Ibrahim confirmed that four government soldiers, including a senior commander, were killed in the fighting.

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Militants attacked an Afghan army unit guarding a military academy in the capital of Kabul on Monday, killing at least 11 soldiers and wounding 16, officials said. Hours later, the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) affiliate in the country claimed responsibility for the assault.

It was the latest in a wave of relentless violence in Kabul this month unleashed by the Taliban and rival ISIS militants that has killed scores and left hundreds wounded.

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Yemeni government forces clashed with separatists in the southern port city of Aden on Sunday in fighting that left at least eight people dead.

The country’s internationally recognized government considered the separatists’ assault an attempted “coup” backed by onetime ally the United Arab Emirates.

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A suicide car bombing in Afghanistan on Saturday killed 95 and wounded more than 150 people near a police checkpoint in the country’s capital of Kabul, according to the Afghan Public Health Ministry.

The Taliban claimed responsibility for the attack, which comes one week after another Taliban-claimed attack on a luxury hotel in Kabul left at least 22 people dead.

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Laden with mattresses, suitcases, solar panels, chairs and plastic buckets, thousands of refugees have crossed into Burundi in the past three days to flee fierce fighting in the Democratic Republic of Congo, Burundi police said Friday.

Nearly 7,000 Congolese have crossed Lake Tanganyika and taken refuge in Burundi since Wednesday as clashes raged between DR Congo government forces and rebels in the troubled eastern province of South Kivu.

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