Al-Shabaab militants have beheaded two Somali policewomen, prompting a policeman to kill five women linked to the group who were being held for a possible swap of captives, an official said on Wednesday.

The policeman killed the women - all wives of rebels from the Somali Islamist group - after discovering the dead bodies of his policewoman wife and her colleague, Tayeglow district commissioner Mohamed Abdallah told Reuters.

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Libyan Prime Minister Abdullah al-Thinni has said that a military campaign to liberate Tripoli is continuing.

‘’Our troops are moving towards Tripoli to liberate it,'’ Thinni told Al Arabiya News Channel, adding that his forces were advancing from the west and would also seize the main border crossing to Tunis.

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Andriy Lysenko, spokesman for the Ukrainian military, said on Thursday that three soldiers had been killed in attacks by pro-Russian militants in the past 24 hours.

“We lost three soldiers and another eight were wounded in the past 24 hours,” said Lysenko, adding there had been 22 breaches of the truce since a ceasefire - which began with a “Day of Silence” on Tuesday - was introduced.

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Well drilled: The fighters hold their weapons in formation at their training camp just outside Donetsk

Hundreds of fighters from the Russian republic of Chechnya have formed their own ‘Death Battalion’ to join the insurgency in east Ukraine.

The 300 or so volunteers say they are mostly former state security troops in the mainly Muslim region, where Moscow has fought two bloody wars since the fall of the Soviet Union.

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Kurdistan Regional Government Ministry of Peshmerga has announced Wednesday that 727 Peshmergas have been martyred and 3,564 injured in the fighting with the ISIS since 10 June 2014.

According to a statement issued by the Ministry of Peshmerga, the aftermath of 34 other fighters lost in action remains unknown.

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