Iraqi soldiers backed by Sunni fighters launched a major operation Saturday to retake a section of the city of Ramadi seized by Islamic State terrorists, an official and residents said.

The fighting focused on Ramadi’s eastern Sijariya neighborhood, which the extremist group said it captured Friday.

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The National Intelligence Service of Kenya NIS and the Kenya Defense Forces have conducted a synchronized operation killing and destroying the terror cell that killed 28 people in Mandera bus attack today at 11.00 AM East African time.

Intelligence reports confirm a coordinated air raid is bieng conducted by Kenya Defense Forces fighter aircraft’s inside Somalia mid-morning Saturday in response to the Mandera bus attack.

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Ukrainian Defense Minister Stepan Poltorak has claimed 7500 members of the Russian armed forces are present in his country, “preventing” Kiev from stabilizing the situation in the Donbass.

On Saturday Poltorak issued a statement reading that “unfortunately the stabilization of the situation in the east of Ukraine does not depend only on us.”

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Members of the armed terrorist group Boko Haram have killed at least 45 people in village near Mafa city in the northern Nigerian state of Borno, local media quoted municipal sources and witnesses.

The radicals attacked Azaya Kura town on Wednesday, just one day before refusing to extend the state of emergency imposed by the government 18 months ago in Borno and two other states northeastern the country due to the Boko Haram attacks.

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Suspected Islamic State militants launched coordinated attacks on Friday around the western Iraqi city of Ramadi, overrunning a village to the east and clashing with tribal fighters to the west, a local official and a tribal leader said.

Ramadi, about 90 km west of Baghdad, is located in the Sunni Muslim Anbar province which is a stronghold of the Islamic State forces who have captured much of northern and western Iraq.

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