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At least 54 people have been killed in a series of blasts in northeast Nigeria, the latest attacks by Boko Haram militants on “soft” civilian targets.
The attacks in the city of Maiduguri on Monday targeted the Ajilari Cross evening market area and neighbouring Gomari, hitting worshippers at a mosque and football fans watching a televised match.
KDF troops under Amisom have killed eight al Shabaab militia in three foiled attacks between Thursday and Saturday.
Three members of the al-Qaeda linked terror group were killed in a thwarted attack in the Damasa area of Gedo region on Saturday morning.
Local forces in Syria backed by popular defense forces have killed more than 100 al-Qaeda linked militants during a series of violent clashes in the northwestern Syrian province of Idlib, a report says.
The Lebanon-based Al-Mayadeen satellite channel said in a report on Saturday that the militants were killed after local forces repelled fresh attacks by the al-Nusra Front in the al-Fo’aa and Kefraya villages in Idlib.
There were heavy air strikes this afternoon in Benghazi’s Leithi, Gwarsha and Sabri districts following the announcement of a new military operation against the Islamic State and other militant groups in the city.
The launch of Operation Doom (Hatif) was unveiled earlier in the day by the head of Libyan armed forces, General Khalifa Haftar, at a military gathering at Benina Airbase.
Fighters from Mali’s former rebel alliance, the Coordination of Azawad Movements (CMA), took control of the northeastern town of Anefis Friday after loyalist fighters who seized it last month withdrew, officials said.
“CMA rebels have retaken control of the locality of Anefis today,” a security official in MINUSMA, the UN peacekeeping mission the west African country, told AFP. “But without a fight. Several of their vehicles arrived in the city.”
