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The Al-Qaeda inspired jihadist group Ansar Beit al-Maqdis has claimed Monday’s attack on a gas pipeline in Egypt’s restive Sinai peninsula.
In a statement posted to jihadist websites, the Sinai-based group said it carried out the attack on the pipeline south of the flashpoint town of El-Arish to “strike at the Egyptian economy and regime”.
Tribal sources have confirmed on Thursday that for the past consecutive days the Houthis (Shiite tribal faction which stronghold is located in the northern province of Sa’ada) have relentlessly assaulted tribesmen affiliated to al-Islah (Sunni radical faction) just north the Yemeni capital, Sana’a.
Although President Abdo Rabbo Mansour Hadi negotiate a truce earlier this month, keen to restore order as NDC representatives hashed out the last details of Yemen’s reconciliation talks and institutional overall, the warring factions have unable and unwilling to sustain a meaningful ceasefire so far.
Turkish army attacked a convoy that belongs to the al-Qaeda-linked Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) in northern Syria, the Turkish military said in a statement on Wednesday.
The Turkish military struck a number of vehicles that belong to the radical group, after militants opened fire on a military outpost on Turkey-Syria border on Wednesday.
At least 37 Islamic fighters have been killed in a two-day offensive against insurgents opposed to a new peace deal between the government and the main Muslim rebel group, military officials said Wednesday.
President Benigno Aquino III said the military launched the assault to protect villages after Bangsamoro Islamic Freedom Movement fighters staged attacks in southern Maguindanao province. Troops were aiming “to seriously degrade their abilities to again act as spoilers,” Aquino told reporters.
There are reports this evening of fighting around the Tamenhint airbase near Sebha between Qaddafi supporters and Misrtatan forces that arrived from Jufra district where they have been based for the past few days. Misratan souces have told the Libya Herald that the base has now been liberated but that most of the Qadadfi supporters escaped. There were reports too of air cover being given to the Misratans.
Sources in Sebha, however, told this newspaper that fighting was still continuing and that it was taking place north of Tamenhint, on the Sebha-Hun road.