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A 45-day ultimatum and amnesty offer by the Somali government has seen dozens of Al-Shabaab militants surrender their arms, a government official has said.
“We are receiving defectors on a daily basis since the president issued the amnesty,” National Security spokesman Mohamed Yusuf Osman told Anadolu Agency by phone.
The Islamic State (I.S.) allegedly killed at least 300 Iraqi soldiers in a chlorine gas attack on an army battalion in the Iraqi city of Fallujah, a lawmaker from the Shia-dominated National Iraqi alliance said on Monday.
“I.S. killed 300 out of 400 soldiers they besieged in Saqlawiya district of northern Fallujah, using chlorine gas.” said MP Ali al-Budairi in a press conference.
U.S. warplanes have attacked dozens of Islamic State targets inside Syria in major escalation of President Barack Obama’s new borderless war against the black-clad jihadists.
“U.S. military and partner nation forces are undertaking military action against terrorists in Syria using a mix of fighter, bomber and Tomahawk Land Attack Missiles,” the Pentagon announced.
Shia rebels and the Yemeni government have signed an agreement aimed at halting violent clashes that have left more than 140 people dead and forced thousands to flee their homes.
The accord was brokered over the weekend by the UN envoy to Yemen, Jamal Benomar.
Nigerian security services were yesterday investigating reports that Abubakar Shekau, the leader of Boko Haram, had been killed in fighting.
Cameroon’s army posted what appeared to be a photograph of Shekau on social media.
Hundreds of Kurdish fighters from Turkey have arrived in the Syrian Kurdish town of Ayn al-Arab to join a Kurdish militia group battling to hold off ISIS forces, activists said Saturday.
Clashes continue in the area between the militia, called the People’s Protection Unit (YPG,) and the ISIS fighters, according the London-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.
Dozens of people were killed by Boko Haram militants on Friday at a local market in Mainok area of Nigeria’s northeastern state of Borno, survivors and security sources said.
The attackers hit the market, located some 56 km from Maiduguri, capital of the restive Borno State, while buying and selling was at its peak, Bello Adamu, an eyewitness told Xinhua.