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Hundreds of Ethiopian troops have crossed a border town in neighboring Somalia in order to fight al-Shabaab fighters, witnesses say.
Capt. Hashi Nour of the Somali military confirmed that Somali and Ethiopian troops had moved in the town of Beletweyne on Saturday.
Following the move, hundreds of Somali residents fled the border town, some 30 km (18 miles) into Somalia, local people said.
At least two are dead and four injured following fighting between security forces of the semi-autonomous state of Puntland and militias loyal to Sheikh Mohamed said (also known as Atom) in Laag village, 30km away from Bosaso in the north of the Bari region. The fighting erupted, according to the residents and officials, after the militias attacked bases belonging to the security forces.
A farmer in Laag village who requested to be identified only as Mukhtar told Somalia Report, “The fighting broke out around 3am, after militants attacked Puntland bases in Laag village.”
A huge car bombing in the restive southwestern city of Quetta killed at least 10 people and wounded 23 people on Friday evening, according to police officials.
The Balochistan Liberation Army, a shadowy banned separatist group, claimed responsibility for the attack and said that the blast was carried out by a suicide bomber, according to the local news media.
Muman Abu Daf led the Army of Islam, one of the small Palestinian groups that profess allegiance to or inspiration from al-Qaeda.
Five others were wounded in the strike, medical officials told the BBC.
The raid was aimed at a group of Palestinian militants preparing to fire rockets into Israel.
Heavy fighting between Somali government soldiers backing by AU troops and al-Shabaab militants took place overnight in parts of Somalia capital, Mogadishu, TFG official said on Thursday.
Omar Ja’fan, the district commissioner of Huriwa for TFG told Shabelle Media in an interview that Fighting and heavy artillery shelling between Somali government forces backed by African Union peacekeepers and al-Shabaab fighters erupted in many parts of his district in capital city of Mogadishu.
Yemen forces exchanged machinegun fire with al-Qaeda militants near Zinjubar town the provincial capital of Abyan southern province on Wednesday left two soldiers and six al-Qaeda militants dead, said security and local officials from Abyan province.
The clashes erupted after al-Qaeda militants launched an offensive against an army barrack of the 119th Armored brigade positioned in the east of Zinjubar town, said a local council source from Abyan.
The source confirmed that most of the killed militants were foreigners including a Saudi and Syrian nationals.
The leader of the Darfur rebel group Justice and Equality Movement (JEM), Khalil Ibrahim, has been killed as he was leading his forces on the way to the Republic of South Sudan, according to the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF).
Ibrahim’s death at the age of 53 was confirmed to Sudan Tribune by a number of well-placed sources. Whereas the sources failed to specify the manner or location of his death, JEM was expected to issue a statement in the coming hours confirming the death of its leader.