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Commander Uriel, one of the main leaders of Colombia’s left-wing National Liberation Army (ELN) rebels, was killed during a military operation, President Ivan Duque announced on Sunday.
“This is a particularly important blow (to the ELN) because one of the most visible figures of this terrorist organization has fallen,” the president said in a speech in Choco department, in northwest Colombia where the operation took place.
A powerful bomb blast ripped through an Islamic seminary on the outskirts of the northwest Pakistani city of Peshawar on Tuesday morning, killing at least eight students and wounding 136 others, police and a hospital spokesman said.
The bombing happened as a prominent religious scholar during a special class was delivering a lecture about the teachings of Islam at the main hall of the Jamia Zubairia madrassa, said police officer Waqar Azim. He said initial investigations suggest the bomb went off minutes after someone left a bag at the madrassa.
The Congolese military on Sunday destroyed bases of Maï-Maï Mazembe militia in Kanzanza on the west coast of Lake Edward in Lubero territory of North Kivu.
This new FARDC attack against the late Kitete’s Mai-Mai Mazembe was launched early this Sunday morning in Kanzana.
Russian air strikes killed dozens of fighters from a Turkey-backed rebel group in northwest Syria on Monday, as Turkish officials fear the government, backed by Russia, is preparing to overrun Idlib.
A high-ranking commander in Failaq al-Sham told Middle East Eye that more than 100 were killed and 150 people wounded after Russia targeted the faction’s training camp in Jabal Duwayli area in Idlib province.
At least 19 people have been killed over several days of clashes between militias in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, according to experts and a local official.
The fighting between rival militias “left 19 dead including two civilians and 17 combatants”, one of the experts in the Hauts Plateaux region told AFP on Friday.
Yemen’s Houthi rebel group on Saturday said it launched drone attacks on two Saudi airports and a base in the kingdom’s south.
Jizan airport, Abha airport, and the Khamis Mushait base were targeted using drones, Houthi military spokesman Yahya Saree said in a statement.
Libya’s warring factions have signed an agreement on a permanent ceasefire, after five days of talks in Geneva.
The deal between military leaders from Libya’s government, and those from opposition forces lead by General Khalifa Haftar, was brokered by the UN.