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At least 20 soldiers assigned to the armed forces of the semi-autonomous region of Puntland have in the district of Gambadha voluntary surrendered to the Somaliland national army eastern region command based in Sool region.
General Ismael Shaqalle in a press statement released from his office today last night stated as follows:
Islamist militants took control of the biggest special forces base in Libya’s eastern city of Benghazi on Tuesday after a battle that killed 30 people.
Soldiers abandoned their base after heavy shelling, according to Saiqa Special Forces officer Fadel Al-Hassi.
As the Israeli military aggression against Gaza Strip entered its twenty third day, at least 115 Palestinians, including children and women, were killed early Tuesday, and around 220 were injured, bringing the death toll to at least 1231 and around 6720 injury cases.
Rescue teams recovered the body of Niveen al-Far from under the rubble of her house in al-Maghazi refugee camp in central Gaza, which was shelled at dawn and claimed the lives of three other Palestinians.
Dozens of people were killed and injured in a “terrorist attack” in China’s far western Xinjiang region, home to the mainly Muslim Uighur minority, state media reported Tuesday.
A knife-wielding gang attacked a police station and government offices in Shache county early Monday, the official Xinhua news agency said citing local police, and “dozens of Uighur and Han civilians were killed or injured”.
Abu Sayyaf gunmen attacked Filipino civilians traveling to celebrate the end of Ramadan with their families on Monday, killing 21, including at least six children, in a brazen road attack that was the bloodiest in recent years by the violent militant group, police and military officials said.
Eleven other civilians were wounded as the group traveled in two vans in a coastal village in Talipao town in predominantly Muslim Sulu province, where the militants have survived in jungle camps despite years of U.S.-backed Philippine military offensives.
The Syrian troops on Saturday recaptured a key natural gas field after intense battles with the militant group calling itself the Islamic State (IS) in the eastern part of Syria’s central Homs province, the Syrian army’s general command said in a statement.
The Syrian army, backed by the pro-government National Defense Forces, succeeded on Saturday in taking back the al-Shaer gas field after a “precise and qualitative” operation, during which the government troops eliminated large numbers of armed ” terrorists,” affiliated with the IS, said the statement.
At least 59 people died in clashes between the Libyan government forces and Islamist militants in Benghazi and Tripoli, Reuters reported on Sunday, citing local security and healthcare sources.
According to the agency, the clashes began in two cities almost simultaneously and continued through the entire night. Preliminary estimates show that at least 36 people were killed by militants in Benghazi with the majority of the victims being civilians. In Tripoli 23 people, including Egyptian workers, died when a house collapsed hit by a mortar round.