South Sudan’s oil-rich Unity state saw heaving fighting this weekend when clashes between government troops (SPLA) and the armed opposition (SPLA-IO) broke out in Rubkotna county.

The Sudan Tribune confirmed the heavy gunshots and bombardments with a group of civilians who fled the area to the United Nations camp in Bentiu.

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At least 10 Turkish soldiers were killed and seven others were wounded on Sept. 26 in two separate attacks by the militants of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) in the country’s southeast.

Six soldiers were killed in an atack on a checkpoint in Şırnak, while four others were killed in a roadside bomb attack in Mardin’s Derik district.

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Southwest state forces have carried out attacks in Lidale district in Bay region, targeting al-Shabaab base in southwestern region of Somalia on Saturday, Garowe Online reports.

At least 10 people, including seven al-Shabaab militants and three Somali soldiers were killed on Saturday, after state forces raided al-Shabaab base in Lidale district, General Ibraahim Yarow, a Senior military advisor to the Somali National Army confirmed the reports to local media.

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According to Afghanistan Defense Ministry press office, in the last 24 hours Afghan security forces led mopping-up operations in some parts of the country killed 99 insurgents including 41 ISIS terrorists and 43 Others wounded and detained 2 others, BNA news reports.

According to another report, 4 national army soldiers were also martyred during the clashes with armed insurgents.

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The Democratic Party of Iranian Kurdistan (PDKI) claimed on Saturday to have killed at least 10 soldiers of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) last week.

A statement released on the PDKI website said clashes between Kurdish forces and IRGC soldiers erupted on the evening of Sep. 18, in the Mukrian region of Iranian Kurdistan (Rojhilat).

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