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A newly formed organization, the Shura Mujahidin Council (SMC), urged today the Libyan Islamist militias to form a coalition to confront the offensive announced by the government of Prime Minister Abdallah al Thinni.
SMC, made up of unknown members, issued a statement accusing Al Thinni and the militia of the self-called Libyan National Army (LNA) of destroying the city of Benghazi, while urging all opposition forces to join in a single organization.
Yemeni troops on Saturday shot dead five Al-Qaeda suspects disguised as women who fired at a soldier during a checkpoint inspection of their Saudi-bound bus, officials said.
Another suspect was wounded along with the driver in the shooting at Harad, a town 15 km from the Saudi border, the officials said, adding two of those killed were Saudis.
The YPG (People’s Defense Units) Press Centre has released a written statement providing information about the offensives against the ISIS groups in Kobanê, Serêkaniyê and Jazaa.
YPG announced that the attacks by the ISIS gangs aiming the occupation of Kobanê continued on the 88th day.
Al-Shabaab militants have beheaded two Somali policewomen, prompting a policeman to kill five women linked to the group who were being held for a possible swap of captives, an official said on Wednesday.
The policeman killed the women - all wives of rebels from the Somali Islamist group - after discovering the dead bodies of his policewoman wife and her colleague, Tayeglow district commissioner Mohamed Abdallah told Reuters.
Libyan Prime Minister Abdullah al-Thinni has said that a military campaign to liberate Tripoli is continuing.
‘’Our troops are moving towards Tripoli to liberate it,'’ Thinni told Al Arabiya News Channel, adding that his forces were advancing from the west and would also seize the main border crossing to Tunis.
Andriy Lysenko, spokesman for the Ukrainian military, said on Thursday that three soldiers had been killed in attacks by pro-Russian militants in the past 24 hours.
“We lost three soldiers and another eight were wounded in the past 24 hours,” said Lysenko, adding there had been 22 breaches of the truce since a ceasefire - which began with a “Day of Silence” on Tuesday - was introduced.
Well drilled: The fighters hold their weapons in formation at their training camp just outside Donetsk
Hundreds of fighters from the Russian republic of Chechnya have formed their own ‘Death Battalion’ to join the insurgency in east Ukraine.
The 300 or so volunteers say they are mostly former state security troops in the mainly Muslim region, where Moscow has fought two bloody wars since the fall of the Soviet Union.