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Egyptian military officials say troops have killed 16 members of an al-Qaeda-inspired militant group in the restive Sinai Peninsula.
The officials say four leading members of Ansar Beit al-Maqdis were arrested during the operations, which were still underway early Tuesday.
Two bomb attacks in Yemen Thursday killed 47 protesters in the capital Sana’a and 19 troops at a checkpoint in the far south-east, state news agency Saba reported.
The attack in the capital targeted a protest held by the Houthi Shiite rebel movement, with Houthi officials saying several children were among the victims.
Islamic State group jihadists were in control Thursday of more than one-third of the Syrian border town of Kobane after pushing back its Kurdish defenders, a monitoring group said.
“Despite fierce resistance from the Kurdish forces, IS advanced during the night and controls more than a third of Kobane,” Rami Abdel Rahman, director of the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, told AFP.
Islamic State fighters have pushed into two districts of the strategically important Syrian border town of Kobane in fierce fighting, Kurdish officials among the town’s defenders said.
“Tonight [Islamic State] has entered two districts with heavy weapons, including tanks. Civilians may have died because there are very intense clashes,” Asya Abdullah, co-chair of the Democratic Union Party (PYD), the main Syrian Kurdish group defending the area, told Reuters from the town.
Indian and Pakistani troops exchanged heavy gunfire overnight Tuesday, after days of fighting that has left at least 17 civilians dead and dozens wounded on both sides of the Kashmiri frontier.
Each country blames the other for violating a longstanding cease-fire, and neither has begun a meeting of commanders at the border, the traditional mechanism for de-escalating such standoffs.