A suicide bomber has killed 20 people at a police headquarters in the Afghan capital Kabul, officials say.
At least 29 others were wounded in the blast in the west of the city, the interior ministry said.
Lebanon: 16 killed as ISIS and Jabhat al-Nusra fight along Lebanon-Syrian border
Heavy fighting has erupted in northeastern Lebanon over the weekend between the major Islamist factions in the Syrian Civil War, ISIS and al-Qaeda’s Jabhat al-Nusra, who fought on the outskirts of the town of Arsal, which is housing tens of thousands of refugees.
Reports from the area suggest at least nine ISIS and seven Nusra fighters were killed in the weekend fighting, and local Sheikh Mustafa Hujeiri, seen as close to Nusra, is said to be trying to broker some sort of local truce between the two sides to end the fighting.
Yemen: Al-Qaeda militants seize souther town of Azzan on key highway
Al-Qaeda fighters have taken control of a town in southern Yemen on a major road linking two provincial capitals, a local official and tribal chiefs said today.
Militants swept unopposed into Azzan, in Shabwa province, before raising the al-Qaeda flag over public buildings, the sources said.
Sunday, 31 January, 2016
Syria: At least 60 dead in bombings in Damascus, claimed by Islamic State terrorist group
At least 60 people were killed, including 25 Shi’ite fighters, and dozens wounded on Sunday by a car bomb and two suicide bombers in a district of Damascus where Syria’s holiest Shi’ite shrine is located, a monitor said.
Sunni fundamentalist Islamic State claimed responsibility for the attacks, according to Amaq, a news agency that supports the group. It said two operations “hit the most important stronghold of Shi’ite militias in Damascus”.
Nigeria: Boko Haram Islamic extremists burn kids alive in northeast Nigeria
A survivor hidden in a tree says he watched Boko Haram extremists firebomb huts and heard the screams of children among people burned to death in the latest attack by Nigeria’s homegrown Islamic extremists.
Scores of charred corpses and bodies with bullet wounds littered the streets from Saturday night’s attack on Dalori village just 5 kilometers (3 miles) from Maiduguri, the birthplace of Boko Haram and the biggest city in the northeast, according to survivors and soldiers.