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In an attack carried out on a Sudanese army unit in the Blue Nile state on Wednesday, the Sudan People’s Liberation Movement -North (SPLM-N) fighters claimed killing 16 government soldiers.
In a statement issued on Wednesday evening, the SPLM-N official spokesperson Arnu Ngutulu Lodi said the ambush took place in Alyarmuk seven km south Bot town.
Two separate attacks in Mohmand district of the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) on Thursday killed at least nine personnel of the Khasadar Force.
According to local media, unidentified assailants opened fire at a security checkpost in Karapa area of Pandyali tehsil in Mohmand Agency killing seven Khasadar personnel.
The United Nations says convoys carrying “life-saving aid” have reached five besieged areas of Syria.
UN officials said trucks carrying food, medical equipment, and medicine for almost 100,000 people had reached rebel-held Madaya, Muadhamiya, and Zabadani near Damascus, and pro-government northern villages of Foah and Kefraya on February 17.
A suicide bomber killed at least 14 soldiers in Aden today, in the latest attack on Yemen’s second city claimed by jihadists of the Islamic State group.
The southern port city has been the headquarters of forces loyal to President Abedrabbo Mansour Hadi and his backers in a Saudi-led military coalition but has seen growing violence by IS and its jihadist rival al-Qaeda.
“A man detonated his explosive vest among soldiers,” a military source said.
Ankara governor says the huge explosion is believed to have been a car bomb as witnesses shared images of the scene on social media.
At least 28 people were killed when a car bomb hit a military convoy in Ankara on Wednesday, in an attack blamed by Turkish security sources on Kurdish militants.
Two Turkish soldiers have been killed and two others have been wounded in clashes with outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) militants in the Sur district of the southeastern Diyarbakır province where a round-the-clock curfew has been in place since Dec. 2, 2015.
According to a statement released by the Turkish Armed Forces at 9 a.m. on Feb. 17, the soldier identified as Mehmet Ali Dinç was heavily wounded while two others sustained light wounds in an operation carried out against PKK militants in Sur late Feb. 16.
“The wounded soldiers were promptly transferred to a hospital. However, despite all efforts at the hospital, our heavily wounded comrade-in-arms could not be saved,” the statement said.
Kurdish rebels captured a strategic town during overnight fighting with Arab rebel forces in northwestern Syria’s Aleppo province, according to activists.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a Britain-based monitoring group, said Monday the Syrian Democratic Forces — a U.S.-backed coalition of Kurdish, Arab and Assyrian rebel groups — gained control over Tell Rifaat, which overlooks the junction of two main roads leading to Aleppo City.