The Nigerian Army said on Friday that it had cleared nine more suspected Boko Haram terrorists camps in its operations in Borno.
Col.Tukur Gusau, the Media Coordinator of Operation Lafiya Dole, said this in a statement in Maiduguri.
Yemen: National resistance fighters killed 107 Houthi rebels in battle in Dhale
Yemen’s national resistance fighters killed 107 rebels from the Houthis and their allies in two days of fighting after the coup insurgents attacked Damt town in the Southwestern Dhale governorate, a Yemeni news network reported on Friday.
The insurgents launched two offensives within two days to seize Damt but faced fierce resistance from the national fighters, who also launched a counter-attack in another area, Marib Press said, quoting military sources.
Thursday, 5 November, 2015
Turkey: Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) rebels end cease-fire
Kurdish rebels in Turkey declared an end to a unilateral cease-fire on Thursday, a day after President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, fresh from a sweeping election victory, pledged to eradicate the militants.
In halting a month-long bid to restore a truce, the Kurdistan Workers’ Party, or PKK, also urged an escalation in the fight for Kurdish autonomy, said a statement published by the Firat news agency.
Egypt: Car bomb kills 6 people, ISIS affiliate Sinai Province claims responsibility
A car bomb targeting a policeman’s club in the Egyptian city of El Arish killed six people and wounded 10 on Wednesday, security sources said.
Islamic State’s Egypt affiliate, Sinai Province, claimed responsibility for the attack, which it described as a suicide bombing.
The group has killed hundreds of soldiers and police since the army toppled Islamist President Mohamed Morsi in 2013 after mass protests against his rule.
Wednesday, 4 November, 2015
Afghanistan: High Council of Afghanistan Islamic Emirate taliban splinter group chooses Mullah Rasool as chief
Afghan Taliban dissidents have named Mullah Mohammad Rasool as the head of a splinter group following the collapse of months’ long efforts to end the rift within the insurgent group, two Taliban leaders claimed on Sunday.
Rasool was among those who had refused to pledge allegiance to Mullah Akhtar Mansoor as the new Taliban chief. Mansoor, who was elected in early August after the confirmation of death of the Taliban’s longtime supreme leader Mullah Muhammad Omar, has strengthened control over the movement; however, the rebel group will haunt him.
Syria: Syrian army regains control of Aleppo supply route
The Syrian army regained control of a road southeast of Aleppo on Wednesday, taking back the government’s only supply route into the city from Islamic State fighters who had seized it last month.
State TV said army forces took full control of the road which runs from Aleppo through the towns of Khanaser and Ithriya and links up with the cities of Hama and Homs further south. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitoring group confirmed the report.
Tuesday, 3 November, 2015
Somaliland: Why Somaliland is not a recognised State
Somaliland, a slim slice of Somali-inhabited territory on the southern shore of the Gulf of Aden, ticks almost all the boxes of statehood. It has its own currency, a reasonably effective bureaucracy and a trained army and police force.
The government, located in the capital city of Hargeisa, maintains a respectable degree of control over its territory: the country is, by and large, peaceful, in stark contrast to Somalia to the south—where bombings and a rampage through a popular hotel in the capital killed at least 14 people at the weekend.