Iraq has launched a military operation to recapture former leader Saddam Hussein’s hometown of Tikrit from Islamic State (IS).
Troops and militia were said to be attacking on different fronts, backed by airstrikes from Iraqi fighter jets.
Sunday, 1 March, 2015
Iraq: Peshmerga forces repel ISIL attack in Makhmuri
Kurdistan Peshmerga forces repelled on Sunday an attacked by ISIL in Makhmuri, when Coalition aircraft bombed a number of ISIL’s hideouts.
A security source told PUKmedia that ISIL attacked Peshmerga forces last night, in Makhmuri axis, adding that Kurdistan Peshmerga forces repelled ISIL attack that killed and injured dozens of terrorists.
Libya: Isis withdraws from Derna, Libyan airstrikes on Ansar al Sharia sites
Even egyptian newspapers Al Youm al Saba and Al Watan confirm news about abandoing of Derna city, in Libya, by Isis men. Moreover On Tv egyptian television confirmed it quoting local sources in Derna.
The town was controlled not only by Isis men, but also by Ansar al Sharia forces, which just yesterday libyan aviation has announced to have destroyed some sites.
Syria: Al-Nusra Front drove out Hazm Movement rebels from a military base near Aleppo
Al-Qaeda’s Syria affiliate on Saturday drove US-backed rebels out of a strategic northern military base in fierce fighting that left dozens dead, a monitor said.
At least 29 fighters from the Western-armed Hazm movement were killed along with six Al-Nusra Front jihadists, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.
Saturday, 28 February, 2015
Yemen: Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula militants kill 4 soldiers in a Lahj province
Gunmen ambushed a military truck during a night-time attack in a southern province, officials said, killing all four soldiers in the vehicle, in a raid claimed by Yemen’s Al-Qaeda branch.
Yemeni security officials said the attackers surprised the soldiers late on Thursday with heavy gunfire while patrolling a street in Houta, a town in the southern Lahj province. They could not identify the attackers.
Friday, 27 February, 2015
Nigeria: Boko Haram militants killed about 100 people in northern Nigeria
Boko Haram Islamist militants killed about 100 people this week in attacks on villages in northeast Nigeria, with residents fleeing the onslaught, according to a senator representing the region.
The insurgents attacked three local government areas of Kala Balge, Gamboru Ngala and Dikwa in Borno state, Ahmed Zanna, the senator representing central Borno, said by phone on Friday from the capital, Abuja. “The attackers killed no less than 100 people in the villages and at market places.”
Afghanistan: Clashes between ISIL and Taliban militants
After setting the historical shrines of Logar province of Afghanistan on fire on Saturday February 21st, 2015, the ISIL militants also killed one civilian and replaced the Taliban’s white flag with their own black flag in the Charkh district. On the same day, the ISIL men entered locals’ houses, broke their televisions and warn people not to watching television anymore (Tolonews).
The ISIL affiliated group claimed the responsibility and asked Talibans militants in the Province to declare their allegiance to Al-Baghdadi, the Caliph of Islamic States of Iraq and the Levant. On Tuesday February 24th, 2015, another 30 men, all from Hazara ethnic minorities, were kidnapped in Zabul province by a group of masked men but no one yet claimed responsibility for it.