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The military Saturday repelled an attack on Gombe by Boko Haram who, as they retreated, warned residents not to participate in the country’s elections in March.
Scores of the rebels assaulted Gombe in the morning and engaged in heavy fighting with the army. Two air force jets also attacked the rebels.
At least 26 people have been killed in clashes between Yemen’s Shia Houthi fighters and al-Qaeda-linked militants in the southern province of al-Bayda.
Heavy fighting led to the deaths of 16 Houthi fighters and 10 Sunni militiamen in Yemen’s al-Bayda city, unidentified security officials and tribal sources said.
Terrorists suffered significant losses confronting the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
According to the intelligence data, about 100 terrorists were killed and 180 wounded over the last 24 hours, Censor.NET reports citing the ATO press center.
Suspected Nigerian Boko Haram militants have carried out an attack on Chad overnight, the first such assault on Chadian soil, security sources say.
Officials said the fighters crossed Lake Chad by motorboat and attacked a village on the shores of the lake.
Grenade-toting Taliban militants stormed a Shiite mosque in northwest Pakistan on Friday, police said, in an attack that left at least 18 people dead.
The incident comes two weeks after a suicide bombing at a Shiite mosque in southern Pakistan killed 61 people, the deadliest sectarian incident to hit the country in nearly two years.
A group of gunmen took control of two radio stations in Libya’s western city of Sirte, and aired statements of the Islamic State (IS) terrorist group, local residents said on Friday.
The armed group, claiming to be IS members, expelled all staff at Free Voice and Radio Mikdashi, and broadcast verses of Koran and IS propaganda, including speeches of IS chief Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi and the group’s spokesman Abu Mohammed al-Adnani, Xinhua news agency reported citing a resident who declined to disclose his name.
Burmese state media announced on Friday that Burma Army operations against ethnic Kokang rebels in northern Shan State have cost the lives of 47 soldiers so far, while 73 were wounded during the recent heavy fighting.
The Global New Light of Myanmar newspaper said at least three armed engagements on Feb. 9-12 between government forces and the rebels, also known as the Myanmar National Democratic Alliance Army (MNDAA), in the Kokang Special Region’s Laukkai Township led to the casualties.