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Four soldiers and 13 militiamen died in an attack on an army base on the banks of Lake Albert in northeast Democratic Republic of Congo, military sources said Friday.
An army officer told AFP the attackers belonged to a group of the Lendu ethnic community.
Suspected leftist rebels killed at least 15 security personnel and a civilian driver in an attack on two vehicles in the western state of Maharashtra on Wednesday, police said, as the state celebrated its foundation day.
A senior Maharashtra police official told Al Jazeera that the rebels triggered an improvised explosive device (IED) blast in Gadchiroli, which borders the Maoist stronghold of Chhattisgarh.
The Myanmar military on Tuesday extended its unilateral ceasefire in five regional commands in Kachin and Shan states for two months on Tuesday, with restive Rakhine State remaining exempt from the truce.
The Office of the Commander-in-Chief announced the extension on the last day of its original four-month truce, which started on Dec. 21. The decision came hours after peace talks ended for the day between the government and the four-member Northern Alliance comprising the Kachin Independence Army (KIA), Ta’ang Nationalities Liberation Army (TNLA), Arakan Army (AA) and Kokang’s Myanmar National Democratic Alliance Army (MNDAA) in Muse, northern Shan State on Tuesday.
Turkish airstrikes on Tuesday hit PKK terrorist targets in northern Iraq, according to the National Defense Ministry.
The Turkish jets destroyed weapon positions, shelters, and ammunition depots used by PKK terrorists in the Gara, Hakurk, and Avasin-Basyan regions, the ministry said in a statement.
Over the past 24 hours, Armenian armed forces have violated the ceasefire along the line of contact between Azerbaijani and Armenian troops 22 times, the Azerbaijani Defense Ministry said April 29, Trend reports.
The conflict between the two South Caucasus countries began in 1988 when Armenia made territorial claims against Azerbaijan.
At least 17 Syrian government troops and their allies were killed by two armed groups in Syria’s northern province of Aleppo, a war monitor said.
About 30 others were also wounded in the Saturday morning assaults by Hay’et Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) and its ally Hurras al-Deen, the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.
Boko Haram fighters in northeastern Nigeria have attacked and overrun an army outpost, stealing weapons before fleeing, military sources said Saturday.
Gunmen from the Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP), the IS-linked faction of Boko Haram, attacked the base in Nigeria’s northeastern Borno state late on Friday, two military sources said.