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Four Turkish security forces and one civilian have been killed in two separate armed attacks in the southeastern provinces of Diyarbakir and Sirnak.
One officer and two soldiers were killed in an ambush while Turkish troops were trying to secure a road for a military convoy in the southeastern province of Sirnak early July 30.
At least 26 people died on Tuesday as armed groups clashed over control of a town in the northwest of the Central African Republic.
Militia members clashed in Markounda, about 530 kilometers (330 miles) north of the capital, Bangui, for about two hours, Herve Bilal, head of the sub-prefecture, said by phone. The violence was between so-called Seleka rebels who overthrew former President Francois Bozize in 2013 and supporters of a movement called Revolution-Justice, he said.
Taliban leader Mullah Mohammed Omar died more than two years ago in a hospital in Pakistan of an unknown illness, a senior Afghan intelligence agency official told CNN on condition of anonymity Wednesday.
Separately, an adviser to the country’s chief executive said Mullah Omar is believed to be dead.
Hundreds of Taliban insurgents have stormed and seized control of the administrative headquarters of a district in northern Afghanistan where fighting has raged for days, officials said on Tuesday.
Amanuddin Aman, spokesman for the police chief of Sari Pul province, said hundreds of militants had surrounded and attacked the Kohistanat district HQ on Tuesday morning.
US-backed Kurdish forces in northern Syria captured a key town from Islamic State militants Monday but accused Turkey of shelling Kurdish villages in the area, potentially complicating the international campaign against the extremist group.
At least four fighters and several civilians were wounded in three waves of alleged Turkish shelling in an area controlled by the Kurdish People’s Protection Units (YPG) and the Free Syrian Army.