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At least 49 militants affiliated with the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) terrorist group were killed in separate drone strikes in eastern Nangahar province.
According to the local government officials, the militants were killed in Achin district on Monday.
According to a DAILY TRUST report, the Nigerian military has intensified the battle against Boko Haram terrorists.
Over 600 militants has been killed in the past month, PR-Nigeria, media consultants to the security sector said yesterday.
Saudi media sources reported clashes between the Saudi army and Houthi militants on the bordering mountain of Tuwaileq.
Saudi military sources also said that Houthi forces shelled several locations in Jazan and Najran this morning, while the Saudi army fired back with heavy artillery.
A Libyan official says at least ten civilians were killed when three separate car bombs exploded simultaneously in the eastern coastal city of Darna.
Hamid Albandag, the city’s representative to the internationally-recognized government, says the bombings, which went off Friday evening, set off clashes between militants belonging to the Islamic State’s local affiliate and al-Qaeda-linked militias that continued into Saturday afternoon.
At least 36 militants were killed and tens of others injured in overnight military air raids that lasted until Saturday morning in Egypt’s North Sinai province, a security source said.
“The military airstrikes targeted hideouts of militants south of Sheikh Zuweid and Rafah cities of North Sinai,” Xinhua cited the source as saying. He added that the militants belong to Sinai-based, al-Qaeda-inspired Ansar Bayt al-Maqdis (ABM) group.