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At least 50 people were killed and scores injured in week-long border clashes between Somali clan militia and an Ethiopian paramilitary unit, Somali authorities said on Monday.
Most of the victims were civilians caught in the week-long fighting between the Somali militia and the Ethiopian force known as “Liyu police”, Xinhua quoted Somalia’s Galgadud region Governor Hussein Weheliye Cirfo as saying.
At least 33 Iraqi army soldiers and allied fighters have been killed in an ambush by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) group in a town in the flashpoint western Anbar province.
More than 40 others soldiers were injured in Monday’s attack in al-Seddiqiya, located east of the provincial capital Ramadi, military sources told Al Jazeera.
Al-Qaeda’s North Africa arm has claimed responsibility for two attacks against the United Nation’s MINUSMA peacekeeping mission in Mali this week, the Mauritanian Al-Akhbar news agency reported Sunday.
Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) said it was behind a “rocket attack on a MINUSMA base” in the capital Bamako on Tuesday and a landmine explosion Thursday targeting a UN convoy in the restive north, according to Al-Akhbar, citing AQIM spokesman Abderrahmane Al-Azawadi.
At least 16 insurgents belonging to Taliban and Islamic State (IS) have been killed in air strikes in western Farah province, an official said on Saturday.
Mohammad Hanif Rezaee, a spokesman for the 207th Zafar Military Corps, told Pajhwok Afghan News that Afghan National Army (ANA) jets targeted Sargzan, Gulshtar, Dahna Jamal, Ghazi and Dahna Kashanak areas of Anardara district late Friday.
Terrorists disguised as security forces personnel killed 20 people after kidnapping 35 passengers from 2 coaches on Friday. The incident occurred near Khad Koch area of Mastung. The armed terrorists stopped 2 coaches bound for Karachi from Pasheen. The armed militants took the passengers into nearby hills. According to the District Coordination Officer (DCO) Mastung and security sources, the 15-20 armed militants dressed in security forces’ uniforms came in double cabin vehicles.
A Libyan militia spokesman and a militant group say the local ISIS affiliate has taken control of a civilian air base in the central city of Sirte -the group’s stronghold in the North African country.
Mohammed al-Shamia, spokesman for the 166 Battalion militia, says his group withdrew from the al-Qardabiya air base Thursday.
The Syrian army has pulled back from the northwestern city of Ariha after a coalition of insurgent groups seized the last city in Idlib province in northwestern Syria near the Turkish border that was still held by the government.
A coalition of rebel groups called Jaish al Fateh, or Conquest Army, said it had taken over the city. Syria’s al Qaeda offshoot Nusra Front is a major part of the coalition.