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Islamist militants have overrun an army base in the remote northeast Nigerian town of Baga, two security sources said on Sunday.
Baga is notionally the headquarters of a multinational force comprising troops from Niger, Nigeria, Chad and Cameroon, although only Nigerian troops are actually stationed there.
Self-proclaimed Islamic State in Iraq and Sham (ISIS) militants captured 170 youths from two villages located in the Iraqi city of Kirkuk on Saturday, according to a security source.
The youths are from the al-Jubur tribe and were taken to a prison in Hawija district located 55 km from the city of Kirkuk.
Massacre of soldiers in Libya, killed by a group of armed militants. At least 18 people, 17 soldiers and one civilian, have been killed in attack against a check-point in central district of Giofra.
At least 19 people were killed overnight by Syrian rebel fire on government-controlled parts of the northern city of Aleppo, a monitor said yesterday.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the dead included at least five children, three of whom were killed with their mother when a rocket hit the car they were in.
At least 11 people were killed and six others were injured in Cameroon when Boko Haram militants opened fire on a bus late Thursday, local time, residents said.
The attack to place in Waza, a region bordering northeast Nigeria.