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The Somali national army says it has captured the strategic town of Daynunay from the militant group al-Shabaab. The small town which is 45 kilometer outside Baidoa was a stronghold of the group for over two years.
According to Somali military official Hussein Noor Adan on Tuesday, the insurgents had used the town to launch raids on travelers and attacks on government and AMISOM troops.
At least 30 Houthi rebels have been killed in a suicide bomb attack at a gathering in Ibb city of central Yemen, while fighting in Radaa district has killed at least 34 others.
Wednesday’s large explosion at the cultural centre also wounded the governor of Ibb province, Al Jazeera has learned.
Stronghold: A militiaman runs during a search of a house after taking control of a village on the outskirts of Dhuluiya from ISIS forces
Iraqi forces have recaptured the northern town of Dhuluiya with sources claiming almost 300 ISIS fighters were killed in the battle.
Government security forces fighting alongside Shia militias began their assault of the town on the Tigris River 45 miles north of Baghdad on Sunday with raids by Iraqi helicopter and fighter jets.
The small West African nation of Gambia, has had a military coup aborted.
The coup bid was foiled early Tuesday, while President Yahya Jammeh was in France, military and diplomatic sources said.
Cameroon’s government launched its first ever air strikes against Nigerian Islamic extremists to dislodge about 1,000 fighters who had seized a Cameroonian military base, a statement said Monday.
Fighters from Nigeria’s home-grown Boko Haram extremist group attacked five villages in Cameroon, near its northern border with Nigeria, over three days before they over-ran the military base in the same area Sunday, the government said.
Forces loyal to Libya’s officially recognised government has carried out air strikes on targets in Misrata today in the first such attacks on the city.
Officials and residents said that the airstrikes were targeted on allies of an armed group that seized the capital Tripoli in the summer.
A leader with the Islamic extremist group al-Shabaab, who had a $3 million bounty on his head, surrendered in Somalia, a Somali intelligence official said Saturday.
Zakariya Ismail Ahmed Hersi surrendered to Somali police in the Gedo region, said the intelligence officer, who insisted on anonymity because he is not authorized to speak to the press.