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Separate bomb attacks in Afghanistan have left at least 45 people dead and 105 injured.
Twin Taliban blasts struck near the Afghan parliament in Kabul this afternoon, killing at least 31 people and wounding 70 others in the rush-hour attack that shattered a relative lull in violence in the capital.
Biafra National Guard (BNG) which is a pro-Biafra group has given a one-month ultimatum to the federal government to release Nnamdi Kanu and other Biafra agitators in detention.
The Sun reports that the group warned that it would carry out an offensive against the government unlike the first Biafra war which was more of a defensive one led by Odumegwu Ojukwu.
At least 68 fighters have been killed in two days of fierce battles between Yemeni forces and Shiite Houthi rebels near the strategic Bab al-Mandab strait, military officials said Sunday.
Government forces launched an assault Saturday, recapturing the coastal Dhubab district, just 30 kilometres (20 miles) north of Bab al-Mandab which links the Red Sea and the Indian Ocean.
At least 60 people were killed Saturday by a car bomb attack in Aleppo’s opposition-held Azaz district in northwestern Syria, according to a pro-opposition Syrian civil defense official.
An explosive-laden vehicle blew up in front of a local court in the center of Azaz, Iyad Sheikh Razuk told to Anadolu Agency.
According to Tasnim news agency, one of IRGC forces was martyred in the attack and three others were injured.
The attack was carried out at 11:30 local time, as armed men tried to cross the border into Iran.
Majid Aqa Babaei, director of the Interior Ministry department for border affairs, said the terrorists were pushed back by Iranian forces and could not achieve their evil goals.
Gunfire has erupted at a military camp in the western Ivory Coast town of Daloa, a resident and an army source said, hours after demobilised soldiers took control of Bouake, the West African nation’s second-largest city.
Unrest also erupted in the city of Korhogo, according to The Associated Press news agency.
Kurdish PKK militants were behind a car bombing outside a courthouse that killed two people in the Turkish city of Izmir, a governor said.
Provincial governor Erol Ayyildiz said a “clash erupted” after officers stopped a vehicle at a police checkpoint in front of Bayrakli courthouse.