Different parts of Deir Ezzur in Eastern Syria came to be the scene of fierce clashes between Ahrar Al-Sham, Al-Nusra Front, Jund Al-Aziz and the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) in the last several hours after the first three terrorist groups struck an alliance to wage an all-out war on the rival Al-Qaeda militant group.

The Al-Nusra Front, Ahrar Al-Sham and Jund Al-Aziz came into terms after a series of long negotiations in a move to be able to stand up to the ISIL, a rival Saudi-backed branch of the al-Qaeda terrorist group in Eastern Syria and Western Iraq.

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Emir Tengiz, the head of the Caucasus Emirate’s United Province of Kabarda, Balkaria and Karachays (KBK), issued an official statement in which he took responsibility for elimination of Russian infidels in the province of Nogai Steppe (Russian name: Stavropol Territory) which was carried out by the KBK Mujahideen.

He explained that these were retaliation attacks for numerous murders of peaceful Muslims committed by the Russian KGB (FSB) gang and local apostates. According to him, infidels killed 35 Muslims only in the CE KBK province, declaring them “militants” and putting steal fully weapons with them, though none of them had anything to do with the Mujahideen.

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A newly-formed militant group has claimed it was responsible for a bomb attack targeting a police checkpoint in Cairo’s twin city of Giza that injured six.

“Soldiers reached the heart of the criminal apparatus … to send a message to them that they are not safe from retribution,” said a statement purporting to be from Ajnad Misr (Egypt’s Soldiers) posted late Friday on an al-Qaeda-affiliated website.

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Clashes have broken out between Yemen’s Houthi Shia fighters and Salafist militants near the capital Sana’a, despite an earlier ceasefire between the warring parties.

The clashes erupted in the north of Arhab, 35 kilometers (20 miles) from the capital and near Amman international airport, on Friday.

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Syrian rebels launched a new push in the northern province of Aleppo on Thursday to capture key symbols of the government and stormed a major section of a prison there, freeing hundreds of prisoners in the process, activists said.

The advance came amid a relentless air campaign by government forces that killed at least 11 people in an opposition held neighborhood of the provincial capital of Aleppo. Activists said government aircraft dropped so-called barrel bombs — containers packed with explosives, fuel and scrap metal that inflict massive damage upon impact.

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Fighting broke this morning in Gal-gala mountains, an area not so far from Puntland’s port city of Bossasso, between Puntland armed forces and al-Shabaab militants in Gal-gala.

It was early morning when as reported to Raxanreeb online al-Shabaab fighters in Gal-gala mountains attacked Puntland security forces in Gal-gala from three sides following an exchange of heavy gunfire and other heavy weapons.

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The Syrian government extended its intense aerial campaign against rebel-held areas of the northern city of Aleppo on Monday, conducting a series of airstrikes that killed at least 18 people, including five children, activists said.

President Bashar Assad’s air force has pounded opposition areas of the divided city since mid-December, reducing apartment blocks to rubble and overwhelming already strapped hospitals and medical clinics with the wounded. On Sunday, government aircraft also targeted areas of east Aleppo under rebel control, killing nearly 40 people.

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