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The Egyptian Interior Ministry said Monday that a senior commander in the Islamic State extremist group has been killed in a shoot-out in northern Cairo.
Ashraf al-Gharabli was the head of the extremist group’s operations in Cairo, northern Egypt and the western desert oases, the ministry said.
Afghan talibans have hanged 15 of 35 Isis militants they have captured days ago in suthern province of Zabul.
Isis militants are accused of beheading 7 civilians, including 3 women, carried out saturday by afghan followers of ‘Caliph’.
The Kenya Defence Forces (KDF) and the Somali National Army (SNA) have said they killed nine Al-Shabaab terrorists at Jungal, 30 kms North West of Bardhere.
In a press statement from the Ministry of Defence, the terrorists were pursued by the KDF soldiers and killed, impounding nine AK 47 rifle, five IEDs and assorted ammunition.
Yemen’s Iran-backed rebels have regained several positions lost in recent months across the country’s south, in a fresh push towards the Gulf-backed government’s temporary headquarters in port city Aden, military sources said Sunday
In Lahj province, which borders Aden, rebels are now positioned on a hill overlooking the strategic Al-Anad airbase, according to the sources.
A total of 21 people were killed and 38 others wounded on Saturday in clashes with Islamic State (IS) militants in Iraq’s provinces of Salahudin and Anbar, security sources said.
In northern central province of Salahudin, the security forces and allied paramilitary units, known as Hashd Shaabi, repelled an attack by dozens of IS militants on the positions of the troops at a village near the city of Samarra, a provincial security source told Xinhua on condition of anonymity.