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Lebanese army troops clashed with terrorists in the country’s northeast near the Syrian border today, leaving one soldier and eight gunmen dead, a security official said.
Lebanon has been the scene of frequent violence, including deadly bombings and fighting between terrorists and the army, since war erupted in neighbouring Syria in 2011.
Almost 70 Taliban fighters have been killed during factional infighting within the movement in Afghanistan’s western Herat province, local media reported Wednesday.
Two senior regional leaders were among the 67 militants killed during clashes between Taliban factions, the Khaama Press newspaper reported.
Thirteen Kurdish militants and two Turkish soldiers have been killed during two days of fighting in restive southeastern Turkey, officials say.
The militants from the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) were killed on Monday when a firefight broke out in the town of Idil, which has been under a round-the-clock curfew since February 16 in an effort to root the rebels out.
The US military targeted a training camp run by the Somali Islamist group al-Shabaab over the weekend, the Pentagon announced on Monday, killing more than 150 people.
“It was a successful strike,” said Pentagon spokesperson Captain Jeff Davis, revealing that the drone had destroyed “Raso Camp,” located roughly 120 miles north of Mogadishu.
Dozens of Islamist fighters stormed through the Tunisian town of Ben Guerdan near the Libyan border on Monday, attacking army and police posts in a raid that killed at least 53 people, including civilians, the government and residents said.
Local television broadcast images of soldiers and police crouched in doorways and on rooftops as gunshots echoed in the center of the town. Bodies of dead militants lay in the streets near the military barracks after the army regained control.
At least 13 people, including two police officers and two children, were killed in a suicide attack Monday in Pakistan’s northwestern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, police said.
More than a dozen other people were injured in the attack in the Charsadda District.
Troops have intensified efforts of clearing remnants of Boko Haram terrorists in some hideouts in the North Eastern part of the country.
In line with this on Saturday, soldiers of 121 Task Force Battalion, 26 Task Force Brigade carried out a clearance operations at Dure district.