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Iraqi troops and Muslim militia forces attacked ISIL fighters on several fronts in the country’s largest province on Monday, saying the battle to drive the hardline militants out of Anbar was under way.
A spokesman for the joint operations command said the offensive, which began at dawn, brought together the army, mainly Hashid Shaabi militias, special forces, police and local Muslim tribal fighters.
Burundi’s army killed 31 suspected rebels and captured 170 others in fighting in the country’s north, a military spokesman said on Monday.
The fighting, which comes amid political unrest over the president’s controversial bid for a third term, has raised fears of a return to civil war in this central African country.
ISIS acknowledged losing control of the city of Derna in eastern Libya, promising to “avenge” its fighters, in a video posted on Twitter.
The 10-minute video posted late Saturday by the “media office of the province of Barqa” in Libya confirmed the loss of Derna after clashes.
Afghan forces have killed more than 60 Taliban militants and wounded over two dozen others during various clean-up operations across the war-stricken country over the past 24 hours, Press TV reports.
Myanmar army troops opened fire on soldiers from the Democratic Karen Benevolent Army (DKBA) on Friday in the southern part of the country, continuing the hostilities that began there on July 2 and forcing the reclosure of sections of a major roadway, an ethnic military official said.