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The Israeli Air Force struck three terrorist infrastructure sites, including a Hamas run telecommunications facility in the North of Gaza, early Saturday morning in response to multiple rocket attacks from the coastal enclave the previous day.
The IDF Spokesperson’s Office released a statement saying that the IDF viewed the rocket attacks on Israel with the utmost severity and that it would not tolerate attempts to harm Israeli citizens.
The Pakistan Air Force (PAF) camp at Inqalab road in Peshawar’s Badaber area came under attack early Friday.
Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) spokesperson Muhammad Khurasani claimed responsibility for the attack in an e-mail sent to journalists.
Burkina Faso’s interim president, Michel Kafando, has been stripped of his functions and the government dissolved, a military official said on state-run RTB Television on Thursday.
“We have put in place a national democracy council tasked with organising democratic and inclusive elections,” said the unidentified official in military uniform.
Egyptian security forces have killed 55 militants in Sinai on the ninth day of an operation against Islamists in the area.
A statement by the military on Wednesday said that operation “Right of the Martyr’’ had so far resulted in the killing of 415 militants and the arrest of 320 people.
Defence Minister Kevin Andrews says Australian aircraft have dropped bombs on ISIS targets in Syria for the first time.
Mr Andrews confirmed the mission, that occurred two days ago, this morning.
Dozens of Daesh (IS) militants were killed in a day of coalition airstrikes and clashes with security forces in Iraq’s Anbar province, according to security sources and battle damage reports.
A provincial security source, speaking on condition of anonymity, told Xinhua news agency airstrikes by the US-led coalition on Sunday destroyed a car bomb factory in Fallujah, killing an unknown number of the militants.
The Afghan National Army said its forces killed 100 militants during several military operations carried out across the country over the weekend.
The operations, which occurred in 11 of Afghanistan’s 34 provinces, were conducted in a 24-hour period from Saturday afternoon into Sunday, according to the Afghan Ministry of Defense.
