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A militant group has purportedly claimed a new attack on a Chevron oil facility in Nigeria’s restive Delta region, a message on a Twitter feed previously used by the group to take credit for strikes against oil facilities said.
There was no immediate confirmation of the attack from residents of the area or Chevron.
Kenyan soldiers killed 21 al-Shabaab fighters in Somalia on Wednesday as the military continues to battle the Islamist insurgents near the country’s border.
The soldiers targeted a group of al-Shabaab jihadis in western Somalia and suffered no casualties, David Obonyo, Kenya Defense Forces spokesman, said in a statement released to Reuters.
The Afghan Taliban on Wednesday confirmed that its former leader Mullah Akhtar Mansour was killed in a US drone strike last week and appointed a successor.
In a statement sent to media, the insurgent group said its new leader is Mullah Haibatullah Akhundzada, one of two Mansour’s deputies.
The Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) - a coalition containing Kurds, Sunnis, Christians and Turkmen and led by the Kurdish People’s Protection Units (YPG) - kicked off the operation to retake Raqqa in Syria on Tuesday.
The SDF alliance rallied close to 50,000 Kurdish and Arab fighters and, according to Rudaw news agency, the offensive on Raqqa launched on three fronts.
At least seven ukrainian soldiers killed in the last 24 hours in conflict in Donbass and nine others wounded:
A suicide car bombing claimed by the Islamic State (IS) killed at least 40 army recruits and injured 60 others in the Yemeni city of Aden on Monday, medics said, in one of the deadliest attacks yet on the beleaguered government.
The attack occurred as the recruits lined up to enlist for military service at the home of a senior general in the Khor Maksar district of Aden, officials said.
Isis claimed a series of bombings in two Syrian regime bastion cities on Monday, killing more than 140 people.
Attackers set off at least five suicide bombs and two devices planted in cars, the Observatory said, the first assaults of their kind in Tartous, where government ally Russia maintains a naval facility, and Jableh in Latakia province, near a Russian-operated air base.