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Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi has announced the launching of an offensive to retake the city of Fallujah after the military told residents yesterday to get ready to leave before fighting started.
The city is a stronghold of the self-proclaimed Islamic State group.
Six 29 Assam Rifles personnel were killed in an ambush laid by militants in Manipur’s Chandel district near the Indo-Myanmar border.
The convey was attacked by heavily armed militants around 1 PM in Joupi Hengshi area.
One Ukrainian soldier was killed and another injured in fresh fighting between pro-Russian rebels and government forces in the country’s separatist east, the military said Sunday.
A series of truce agreements have helped reduce violence in the region, although sporadic clashes persist.
Taliban leader Mullah Akhtar Mansour has been killed in a US drone strike, a senior commander with the militant group has said.
Mullah Abdul Rauf told The Associated Press on Sunday that Mansour died in the strike late Friday night.
Sudanese media say fierce clashes between two clans of one tribe this week in the country’s southern West Kordofan State, have left dozens dead.
The independent Shorouk TV said on Friday at least 37 people died in the fighting, which took place on Tuesday, between the branches of the Hamar tribe, an ethnic Arab tribe.
Pakistani officials say six Islamic militants were killed ahead of a planned attack on a university in the central Panjub Province.
Counterterrorism police officials said on May 20 that a group of militants was in the district of Dera Ghazi Khan near the city of Multan when police attacked them and engaged in a shoot-out.
Forces loyal to Libya’s UN-backed unity government pushed Daesh terrorists back towards their stronghold of Sirte on Wednesday but lost more than 30 men, including seven killed in a car bombing, officials said.
In a televised statement from the streets of Abu Grain, military spokesman Mohammad Al Gasri said the forces had “liberated” the small town and two nearby villages after heavy fighting.