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Nigerian troops were forced to retreat from Boko Haram’s Sambisa Forest stronghold in the restive northeast after a landmine blast killed one soldier and three vigilantes, security sources said Thursday.
Military top brass said on Wednesday that soldiers were conducting offensives “in some forest locations” in the area after it was announced last week that operations were imminent.
Somaliland Army units were on Wednesday deployed to quell deadly fighting which broke out on Tuesday between the two warring clans in Taleeh district which is situted 180 KM south of Las Anod.
Mr. Abdirashid Hersi Dalmar,the deputy governor of Sool region said, “The security forces were deployed in the area to deter further violence and also stop elements whose action was bent on reigniting fresh bloody inter-clan fighting between the two communities who have been staying in peace”.
At least 22 terrorists were killed in precision aerial strikes late Tuesday night in North Waziristan Agency.
An ISPR press release said the terrorists were killed in area ahead of Datta Khel in North Waziristan.
Taliban militants announced the start of their spring offensive which is named “Azm” or “Resolution”.
A statement sent to media by the group states they will target military and foreign targets as well as government officials during Azm which is going to be started on April 24.
The Saudi-led international coalition declared Tuesday the end of its military campaign four weeks after launching airstrikes on the Houthi positions in Yemen, saying the militia’s threat to the Kingdom and its neighbors had been neutralized.
The coalition has “ended Operation Decisive Storm based on a request by the Yemeni government and President Abed Rabbo Mansour Hadi,” said its spokesman, Brig. Gen. Ahmad Al-Assiri.
Syrian Army troops continue to gain ground in their fight against foreign-backed armed groups, and have managed to restore security to a number of areas along the border with Lebanon, Press TV reports.
On Tuesday, Syrian government forces continued to engage Takfiri militants in the strategic and mountainous Qalamoun region near the capital, Damascus, and thwarted attempts by groups of armed men to infiltrate the country from neighboring Lebanon.
An improvised bomb exploded near a U.N. vehicle traveling near the northeastern Somali city of Garowe on Monday morning, killing six people — including four aid workers for the international children’s agency UNICEF.
Somalia’s President called it “an attack against the future of our country.”