Tuesday, 14 April, 2015
The commander of a federal police force tasked with protecting Iraq’s largest oil refinery was killed on Tuesday in fierce battles with the Islamic State (IS) militants who managed to seize part of the refinery, provincial security sources said.
The IS militants carried out an attack on the refinery near the town of Baiji in Salahudin province at dawn and made some progress inside the huge oil facility after heavy clashes with the security forces, killing Maj. Gen. Dhaif Khalaf and nine of his bodyguards, a source told Xinhua news agency.
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Somalia’s Higher Education Ministry in the centre of the capital Mogadishu was hit by a large explosion followed by heavy gunfire.
Al Jazeera’s Mustaf Abdi Nor Shafana, reporting from the scene, said he counted the bodies of eight civilians and two soldiers after Tuesday’s assault.
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Monday, 13 April, 2015
A SPLA-N rebel soldier, in South Kordofan (AFP)
The rebel Sudanese People’s Liberation Movement/North (SPLM-N) launched rocket attack on Dilling town in South Kordofan state in conjunction with the start of voting in the general elections.
In March, SPLM-N general chief of staff, Abdel Aziz Adam el-Hilu, announced a campaign to sabotage elections in South Kordofan state. Last week, the SPLM-N said it has seized a vehicle loaded with ballot boxes in the state.
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Two separate bomb attacks targeting security forces in Egypt’s Sinai peninsula killed at least 13 people and wounded dozens on Sunday, the latest in a wave of violence in a region hit by an Islamist insurgency.
Egypt’s military said a roadside bomb detonated by militants killed six soldiers and wounded two others in an attack on an armored military vehicle in the town of Sheikh Zuweid. Two of those killed were officers, it said.
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Naxals attacked a BSF team killing a jawan in Chhattisgarh’s insurgency-hit Kanker district, striking for the third time since Saturday.
Maoists fired indiscriminately on security personnel who were patrolling in the proximity of Chhote Baithiya BSF camp under Bande police station area late on Sunday night, Kanker Superintendent of Police Jitendra Singh Meena told PTI.
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