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Militants in the disputed territory of Kashmir attacked an Indian army camp Friday, triggering a fierce gunbattle that left 11 Indian soldiers and six suspected assailants dead, officials said.
At least three other deadly attacks were launched elsewhere Friday in the region, where local elections were being held through December.
At least 4 Farc fighters and an army sergeant have been killed in violent clashes in rural zones of 2 departments in southwest of the country.
The army corporal has been killed by a rebel in a clash in the municipality of Caloto (Cauca department).
The assault in Baidoa began Friday evening when a suicide bomber detonated explosives outside the popular National Bar and Restaurant, a locale frequented by locals and journalists. BBC Somalia reported the dead included two journalists with London-based Somali TV organizations.
Approximately 10 minutes after the attack, a car bomb exploded nearby.
Islamic State militants launched an attack overnight on a major military air base in eastern Syria in what looked to be a push to eliminate the last significant government outpost in the extremist-dominated region, activists said Thursday.
The airfield just outside the city of Deir el-Zour is a key military facility for President Bashar Assad, giving his warplanes a hub from which to bomb IS-held cities and towns across much of eastern Syria. For the Islamic State group, capturing the airport would eliminate the main pocket of resistance in the area and provide a major morale and propaganda boost after a string of setbacks in recent weeks.
Gunmen stormed a building in Chechnya’s regional capital of Grozny on Thursday killing 16 people, including ten police, hours before President Vladimir Putin vowed in a policy speech to defend Russia against what he called efforts to dismember it.
Chechnya’s Kremlin-backed leader, Ramzan Kadyrov, wrote on his Instagram account that “six terrorists were annihilated” after they had opened fire at a police patrol car, killing three officers and then stormed offices housing local media.