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At least 35 people were killed following two explosions in a crowded neighbourhood of Nigeria’s restless northeastern city of Maiduguri, a stronghold of Boko Haram Islamists, police said Sunday.
“We are still counting. So far we have counted 35 bodies. Our men are still working with rescue workers at the scene,” Borno state police commissioner Lawal Tanko told AFP.
Russia’s Federation Council on Saturday unanimously authorized President Vladimir Putin to send armed forces into Ukraine.
The resolution of the upper house of parliament took effect immediately, according to Federation Council chair Valentina Matviyenko.
Radical jihadists have begun withdrawing from parts of northern Syria after a threat from rivals, to try to protect their stronghold in the east of the war-ravaged country.
The main bloc in Syria’s opposition in exile, meanwhile, announced it would rejoin the umbrella coalition it split from in a bid to close ranks against the regime.
Russian aircraft carrying nearly 2,000 suspected troops have landed at a military air base near the regional capital of the restive Crimean peninsula, a top Ukrainian official said Friday, accusing Moscow of an “armed invasion”.
At least 31 people were killed and 51 wounded when a motorcycle rigged with explosives detonated in Baghdad’s Sadr City, medical and security sources said.
The motorcycle was in a market in the Shia Muslim neighbourhood that sells used bikes and was filled with people, mostly young men.
Syrian state media say troops have killed scores of al-Qaeda-affiliated terrorists in an ambush near the capital, Damascus.
Wednesday’s report by SANA said the terrorists, belonging to the al-Qaeda-linked Nusra Front, were killed near Oteibah lake southeast of Damascus.
Islamic militants set fire to a locked dormitory at a school in northern Nigeria, then shot and slit the throats of students who tried to escape through windows during a pre-dawn attack Tuesday. At least 58 students were killed, including many who were burned alive.
They “slaughtered them like sheep” with machetes, and gunned down those who ran away, said one teacher, Adamu Garba.