More than 60 Egyptian soldiers were killed Wednesday morning in a wave of militant attacks - which included at least one suicide bombing - in the northern Sinai Peninsula.

Militants armed with rocket-propelled grenades (RPGs) attacked at least 10 security checkpoints and a police station in Egypt’s North Sinai province, a security source told Al-Shorouk newspaper.

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Syrian troops and pro-government forces have recaptured another major district in the northeastern city of Hasakah from ISIL militants.

Syria’s state TV said on Tuesday that government forces pushed back the ISIL militants from the Eastern Ghoweiran neighborhood, which is located south of Hasakah.

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Fighters loyal to Islamic State have seized substantial territory in Afghanistan for the first time, witnesses and officials said, wresting areas in the east from rival Taliban insurgents in a new threat to stability.

Witnesses who fled fighting in Nangarhar province told Reuters that hundreds of insurgents pledging allegiance to Islamic State pushed out the Taliban, scorching opium poppy fields that help to fund the Taliban’s campaign to overthrow the Afghan government.

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South Sudanese government on Monday said they repulsed attack by rebels on Farajalla town, about 36km from the state capital of Western Bahr el Ghazal, Wau, but opposition forces said they were in full control of the area after flushing out government troops.

The commissioner of Wau county, Elia Kamilio Dimo, said South Sudanese army, the Sudan People’s Liberation Army (SPLA), had on Monday morning repulsed an attack attempted on their position in Wau county of Farajalla Payam by rebel forces allied to former vice president, Riek Machar.

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Yemen’s Ansarullah fighters and allied army units launched missile attacks on three Saudi military bases on the southwestern border province early on Monday.

Such attacks are launched in retaliation for Saudi Arabia’s merciless airstrikes, according to Yemeni forces.

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