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At least seven foreigners and a Tunisian national were killed in a shooting attack at the country’s leading museum Wednesday, the country’s Interior ministry said.
Government spokesman Mohamed Ali Aroui said on the private Radio Mosaique FM station that only one of the dead was a Tunisian, and did not provide nationalities for the others, the Associated Press reported.
Iraq’s huge offensive to retake Tikrit from the Islamic State group was stalled on Tuesday by a slew of bombs and the several hundred jihadists holding out in the city.
While Iraqi troops and militia were able to surround the jihadists in Tikrit with relative ease, ousting them from the city’s streets has proved far harder.
Scores of terrorists linked to the al-Nusra Front and the ISIS have been killed in airstrikes carried out by Syrian warplanes outside Idlib, Der Ezzour, Hassaka, Homs, Hama, Quneitra, Aleppo, Daraa and Damascus.
According to the official news agency (SANA), army units eliminated dozens of al-Nusra front terrorists, some of them were of Jordanian, Saudi and Uzbekistani nationals, in al-Tamane’a, Saraqeb, Taftinaz, Abo Duhur, Kafr Rohin, Hafsarjeh, Bennish and Silia towns in Idlib countryside.
Afghan security forces have killed 10 fighters who claimed to be from Islamic State (IS) in Afghanistan, officials said, amid reports that growing numbers of disgruntled Taliban fighters have joined the militant group that controls much of Syria and Iraq.
Defense ministry spokesman Dawlat Waziri said the militants were all associated with the Islamic State, known in Afghanistan as “Daesh”. They were killed in an operation in the southern province of Helmand on Sunday.
Sources inside Renk, the nearest large town, said the clashes were likely the result of rebel efforts to recapture areas taken by government forces last week. This was confirmed by a rebel spokesman, SPLA-IO Capt. Paul Malith Koang Riaw, who claimed in a phone interview on Sunday that their forces captured the village of Gabat.