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Five civilians and three soldiers were killed in an attack by rebels on a Congolese army camp near Beni in the restive east of the country.
An AFP photographer saw the bodies of the victims as well as those of eight alleged guerilla fighters killed by the army after the raid on Friday at May-Moya in North Kivu province.
Pakistani air strikes on Sunday killed 23 militants including foreigners in the country’s restive tribal regions near the Afghan border, the military said, part of a massive ongoing operation against the Taliban.
The strikes took place in areas close to the border with Afghanistan in Khyber and North Waziristan tribal districts.
“(A) huge ammunition dump was also blown up during the strikes in Khyber,” the military said in a statement, without giving the identity of those killed or who they fought for.
Suspected extremist fighters attacked a town in western Mali near the border with neighbouring Mauritania before dawn on Saturday, leaving up to 11 people dead, including three soldiers and eight attackers, an army nurse said.
A senior army officer said military intelligence and initial witness accounts indicated the attackers were Islamist fighters mainly from the Peuhl ethnic group.
Kurdish forces have driven out Islamic State (IS) fighters who had infiltrated the Kurdish border town of Kobani in Syrian Kurdistan, but clashes continued outside the town, activists and the official Syrian news agency said Saturday. The civilian death toll — already well over 100 — was expected to rise as the search for bodies continued.
“Kobani has been completely cleared of IS and Kurdish forces are now combing the town looking for fighters who may have gone into hiding,” activist Mustafa Bali, told AP by telephone from Kobani.
Al-Shabaab rebels claimed in a statement that it had carried out deadly attack on Friday at AU military base in Lego town lies 130 km North-West of Mogadishu, killing at least 50 soldiers from Burundi.
Heavy exchanges of gunfire erupted after al-Shabaab militants armed with rocket propelled grenades and machine guns launched an assault on AMISOM military camp in south of Somalia town, witnesses told Shabelle Media in Mogadishu.