Head of Hohadaa el Zawya brigade, colonel Gamal el Zahawi, said that heavy clashes are under way in western zone in Benghazi, between army and Ansar al Sharia militiamen.

“Clashes - said - started near Benghazi University and are under way in these hours”.

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India blamed a Pakistani militant group for an attack on Monday that killed six people and threatens to disrupt planned talks between the nuclear-armed neighbors.

As many as four gunmen dressed in army uniforms attacked a bus station and a police complex in India’s northern Punjab state bordering Pakistan. Security forces had the militants surrounded in a police complex for more than eight hours.

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Iraqi government forces have recaptured a university campus on the outskirts of Ramadi from the Islamic State group, seizing a key position for any offensive to retake the city, officials said on Sunday.

Iraqi forces had recaptured parts of Anbar University in May, shortly after losing the provincial capital to the jihadists, but later pulled back.

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At least 25 people have been killed in new suspected Boko Haram attacks in northeastern Nigeria, with many villagers also forced to flee their homes, residents say.

‘The terrorists stormed Maikadiri around 9am (on Friday) and opened fire on hapless citizens,’ resident Simon Templer said on Saturday.

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Saudi-led coalition airstrikes killed more than 120 civilians and wounded more than 150 after shelling a residential area in the Yemeni province of Taiz on Friday evening, security officials, medical officials and witnesses said.

The officials, speaking on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak to reporters, said that most of the houses in the area were leveled and a fire broke out in the port city of Mokha. Most of the corpses, including children, women and elderly people, were charred by the flames, they said.

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