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Fifteen Islamic State militants were killed in an airstrike in al-Hadar region in Nineveh, western Mosul, according to Iraqi government.
In a statement, the Defense Ministry’s War Media Cell said on Wednesday that “an airstrike targeted a gathering of IS militants in al-Shaihan village, al-Hadar area, depending on federal investigations and information.”
Fifteen al-Shabaab terrorists were killed and many injured in an ambush attack by security forces in Somalia, the Kenyan military has announced.
The Kenya Defense Forces (KDF) spokesman Col. Joseph Owuoth said in a statement late Monday that Kenyan soldiers working under the African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM) ambushed an al-Shabaab terrorist camp 100 kilometers from the border town of El Wak, in the Gedo region of Somalia.
Three militiamen were killed while six soldiers, including two officers, and 11 other militiamen were wounded in clashes with Abu Sayyaf bandits in Sumisip, Basilan on Monday morning.
Captain Jo-Ann Petinglay, spokesperson of the Western Mindanao Command (Westmincom), said the first encounter happened at 7:15 a.m. in Barangay Cabcaban.
Clashes and air strikes in southwest Yemen have killed more than 40 soldiers, rebels and civilians over the past 24 hours, officials and medics said on Monday.
Warplanes from the Saudi-led Arab coalition have pounded Houthi rebel positions east of the Red Sea port of Mokha and other areas of Taiz province since Sunday, a military official said.
ISIS claimed responsibility for bombings that killed 43 at two Coptic churches in Egypt on Palm Sunday — brazen strikes against a vulnerable minority on one of the most important days on the Christian calendar.
In a statement issued on the Telegram messaging platform and circulated by several ISIS supporters, the militant group identified the suicide bombers as Egyptian nationals. Egyptian authorities have not confirmed the bombers’ nationalities.
At least 35 people were killed and scores injured after explosions in two different Egyptian cities at Coptic Christian churches Sunday.
The interior ministry said one of the explosions was a bombing in Mar Gerges church in Tanta, a city in the north of Egypt in the Nile Delta, located between Cairo and Alexandria. The church was full at the time with worshippers observing Coptic Christian Palm Sunday.
ISIS gangs in Tabqa city which is besieged by SDF have launched heavy attacks to break the circle laid around them. While the attacks were repelled, dozens of ISIS members were killed in clashes.
ISIS gangs launched intensified attacks on the area between east and north of the Tabqa city and the Euphrates Dam Friday morning. The attacks that continued into last night have been repelled by Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF).