Saturday, October 19, 2013
Tunisian security forces have killed 10 Islamist militants near the border with Algeria during a three-day operation against gunmen who attacked police patrols in the remote northern region, the government said on Saturday.
Prime Minister Ali Larayedh said the militants belonged to Ansar al-Sharia, the most radical Islamist group to emerge in the North African country since the 2011 uprising ousted its autocratic leader and triggered revolts across the region.
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Friday, October 18, 2013
An al-Qaeda suicide car bomber stormed a military base in Yemen’s southern province of Abyan Friday morning killing at least 15 soldiers and injuring dozens, a provincial security official told Xinhua.
“The suicide car bombing attack was carried out simultaneously with heavy machine gunfire by the militants on the 111th Brigade’s command centre in the district of Ahwar in Abyan province,” the official told Xinhua over phone.
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Thursday, October 17, 2013
Iraqi officials say a series of bombings around the country have killed nearly 40 people.
The officials said there were several explosions in Baghdad that killed at least 24 people. More than 70 reportedly were injured.
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Wednesday, October 16, 2013
Syrian opposition fighters assaulted a regime-controlled central prison in the northern city of Aleppo on Wednesday, an NGO said.
The fighters launched an attack on the administration block of the prison which has been under siege for months, Agence France-Presse reported the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights as saying.
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Nigerians were spared a horrendous slaughter of residents of Bama and Konduga local councils of Borno State when the Nigerian Army 7 Division troops foiled a planned Boko Haram attack on the area, killing no fewer than 40 of the insurgents and injuring many others in a surprise assault on Sunday.
The troops, acting on information that the gunmen were planning an attack on Konduga and Bama local councils’ headquarters on the eve of Eid-el-Kabir celebration, engaged the sect at the fringes of Sambisa Forests and repelled the armed militants.
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