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The Sudanese troops repulsed an attack by the rebel Sudan People’s Liberation Movement - North (SPLM-N) fighters on Kuldegi town in South Kordofan, a military spokesperson said Thursday.
Following the failure of peace negotiations in December 2014, the warring parties in South Kordofan resumed the fighting as every side accuse the other of carrying ground or air attacks.
The Islamic State group’s affiliate in Libya has claimed responsibility for an explosion at a police station in the country’s capital, Tripoli.
The blast early on Thursday caused panic among residents but no one was hurt.
More than 50 regime soldiers and Islamist terrorists were killed as they battled over a strategic hilltop in Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s home province, a monitoring group said on Thursday.
Government forces clashed with Al-Qaeda-affiliated terrorists backed by other armed Islamic terror groups in a village in Latakia province in the northwest, AFP reported.
Islamic militants with the extremist group Al-Shabaab mounted a bloody attack Thursday on government administration offices in Baidoa, Somalia.
Initial reports to police indicate that nine people, including four attackers, were killed after gunmen in military uniforms attacked the house of the former Somali parliament speaker and current president of the newly established southwest regional administration, said Col. Mahad Abdi, a Somali police officer.
Nigeria said on Wednesday that 36 towns had been retaken from Boko Haram since the start of a four-nation military offensive, voicing hope that the operation could lead to the group’s “total defeat”.
National security spokesman Mike Omeri said four towns had fallen since last Friday, including three in Borno state and Buni Yadi, in neighbouring Yobe, where the insurgents slaughtered more than 40 students in February last year before seizing it in August.