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The Ukrainian military over the past 24 hours ten times shelled positions of the people’s militia in the self-proclaimed Lugansk People’s Republic (LPR), the republic’s defense ministry told the LuganskInformCenter on Sunday.
The ministry said “the Kalinovo settlement was shelled seven times.” Besides, the Ukrainian military shelled Kalinovka, Logvinovo and Smeloye.
At least 14 people were killed on Sunday and 23 others wounded in a suicide attack carried out in the Shiite-majority city of al-Kazemiya, north of Baghdad, a source from the Iraqi police told EFE.
Forces aligned with Libya’s U.N.-backed government fought fierce exchanges with Islamic State militants in Sirte on Thursday in which 13 of their fighters were killed and more than 110 wounded, officials said.
The government-backed forces have pinned militants back to a small area in the centre of the coastal city after advancing on the Islamic State stronghold in May.
The Islamic State has claimed responsibility for an explosion during a protest in Afghanistan, which killed at least 80 people and left at least 260 more injured.
CNN reports that the death toll in the capital city of Kabul has reached 80 people as the Islamic State claims three suicide bombers carried out the attack in the crowd of protestors.
A Kurdish member of the Syrian Democratic Forces in Manbij. Photo: Delil Souleiman/AFP
After a brief break in fighting in Manbij, clashes resumed Friday morning between Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) and Islamic State (ISIS) militants, killing at least eight ISIS members.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights described the clashes as “violent between both parties inside Manbij city, accompanied by shelling exchange between both parties.”