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London was rocked by a suspected terror attack tonight with at least two dead after a white van ploughed into pedestrians on London Bridge before three people got out and reportedly stabbed bystanders.
Up to 20 people are feared to be injured on the bridge as horrified witnesses reported seeing bodies strewn on the pavement after the incident at about 10pm.
Al-Shabaab militants killed at least one person and destroyed a telecom mast in an attack on the town of Fafi in north-eastern Kenya, Kenyan officials and the militants said on Thursday.
The attack was the latest in a series of deadly raids by the group that has killed more than a dozen Kenyan police officers in recent weeks.
Libyan forces loyal to Khalifa Haftar and ISIL fighters have launched simultaneous attacks against forces loyal to the UN-backed Government of National Accord (GNA), just hours after unidentified fighter jets raided GNA-held areas.
The Bunyan al-Marsous Forces, who support the Tripoli-based GNA, said they were simultaneously attacked on Friday by both Haftar forces and the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) group in the central district of Jufra, south of Sirte.
A state of calm returned to Aden’s airport, in the interim capital of Yemen, after clashes erupted on Wednesday between two factions of the forces charged with protecting the security of the airport.
Forces directed by coalition forces stepped in to stop clashes between airport security forces, on the one hand, and forces loyal to another military commander, a Yemeni military commander told Asharq Al-Awsat.
A massive explosion in one of Kabul’s most secure neighborhoods has killed at least 90 and injured more than 400, according to the Associated Press. The death toll is expected to rise.
The blast came in the midst of Kabul’s busy morning rush hour and at the heart of one of the nation’s most important commercial and government districts, near the presidential palace and full of foreign embassies, government offices, a television station, supermarkets and banks. The German embassy was heavily damaged and The Washington Post reports that workers in the Japanese embassy were injured, but the exact target is unknown. According to media accounts, windows were shattered and the ground shook as far as a mile away.
Two bombings killed at least 27 people and wounded more than 115 in Baghdad, officials said Tuesday, May 30, as Iraqi forces fight to retake the last Islamic State group-held areas of Mosul.
In the deadliest of the two attacks, a suicide bomber detonated an explosives-rigged vehicle at a popular ice cream shop at around midnight (2100 GMT Monday), killing at least 16 people and wounding 75.
Government forces have regained complete control of the city of Marawi and the clashes with the Daesh-linked Maute group will soon come to an end, spokesman of the Armed Forces of the Philippines said Monday, according to Turkey’s Anadolu Agency (AA).
“Our forces are in complete control of the city, except for certain areas where they continue to hold. These are the subject of clearing operations that are continuously being conducted,” Brig. Gen. Restituto Padilla Jr. was quoted as saying by GMA News.