Taliban suicide attackers have struck a courthouse in northwestern Pakistan, killing at least five people and injuring as many as 15.
The February 21 incident occurred at a region court in the town of Tangi, near the city of Peshawar.
Wednesday, 22 February, 2017
Pakistan: Jamaat-ul Ahrar taliban faction claims responsibility for Tangi courthouse attack
Tuesday, 21 February, 2017
Ukraine: Ukraine accuses rebels of breaking truce as Western concern rises
Ukraine’s military on Monday accused pro-Moscow rebels of breaking a new ceasefire deal barely hours after it came into effect, as Western powers warned Russia over its actions in the former Soviet state.
One soldier was killed and another wounded in fighting in the country’s separatist east despite the new truce that started at midnight, the army said.
Burma-Myanmar: 2 soldiers injured after clash with militants in Rakhine State
Two members of Burma (Myanmar)’s security forces were injured in a clash with militants on the troubled Rakhine State border with Bangladesh, Burma’s state counselor’s office said, casting doubt on the government’s claim that the region had stabilised.
The government last week said the situation in northern Rakhine had stabilised and that it had ended a four-month security crackdown on Rohingya Muslims.
Sunday, 19 February, 2017
Somalia: Death toll from car bomb in busy market in Mogadishu rises to 34
The death toll from a car bomb at a marketplace in Somalia’s capital Mogadishu has risen to 34 with 52 injured, said a police officer.
Many of the dead were carried away by their relatives soon after the blast, said Captain Mohamed Hussein.
Iraq: Iraqi forces launch offensive to liberate western Mosul from Islamic State (IS)
US-backed Iraqi forces have launched a large-scale military operation to dislodge Islamic State (IS) militants from the western half of Mosul city, which has been in the hands of extremists since 2014.
Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi announced the start of the operation on state TV, saying government forces were moving to “liberate the people of Mosul from Daesh oppression and terrorism forever”, using the Arabic acronym for IS.
Saturday, 18 February, 2017
Algeria: Algerian troops kill 14 militants in clashes in the Bouira province
Algerian troops have killed at least 14 armed militants in the past two days in an operation in an eastern region known as a former stronghold for hardline militants, the Defence Ministry said in a statement yesterday.
Troops ambushed and killed five militants on Wednesday and have since killed nine more during the operation by the army in the Bouira province, around 70 kilometres east of the capital Algiers, the statement said.
Nigeria: Boko Haram attack on Maiduguri foiled by army, deaths reported
The Nigerian Army on Thursday evening foiled a Boko Haram attack that targeted Maiduguri, the capital of Borno State in the country’s north-east.
The attack according to local media sources was two-pronged. The face-to-face combat between the army and insurgents before the detonation of three suicide bombs.