Thursday, February 18, 2016
A suicide bomber killed at least 14 soldiers in Aden today, in the latest attack on Yemen’s second city claimed by jihadists of the Islamic State group.
The southern port city has been the headquarters of forces loyal to President Abedrabbo Mansour Hadi and his backers in a Saudi-led military coalition but has seen growing violence by IS and its jihadist rival al-Qaeda.
“A man detonated his explosive vest among soldiers,” a military source said.
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Wednesday, February 17, 2016
Ankara governor says the huge explosion is believed to have been a car bomb as witnesses shared images of the scene on social media.
At least 28 people were killed when a car bomb hit a military convoy in Ankara on Wednesday, in an attack blamed by Turkish security sources on Kurdish militants.
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Two Turkish soldiers have been killed and two others have been wounded in clashes with outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) militants in the Sur district of the southeastern Diyarbakır province where a round-the-clock curfew has been in place since Dec. 2, 2015.
According to a statement released by the Turkish Armed Forces at 9 a.m. on Feb. 17, the soldier identified as Mehmet Ali Dinç was heavily wounded while two others sustained light wounds in an operation carried out against PKK militants in Sur late Feb. 16.
“The wounded soldiers were promptly transferred to a hospital. However, despite all efforts at the hospital, our heavily wounded comrade-in-arms could not be saved,” the statement said.
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Kurdish rebels captured a strategic town during overnight fighting with Arab rebel forces in northwestern Syria’s Aleppo province, according to activists.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a Britain-based monitoring group, said Monday the Syrian Democratic Forces — a U.S.-backed coalition of Kurdish, Arab and Assyrian rebel groups — gained control over Tell Rifaat, which overlooks the junction of two main roads leading to Aleppo City.
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Tuesday, February 16, 2016
Cameroon’s special forces have killed 162 Boko Haram militants in Nigeria’s northeastern town of Goshi, destroying bomb factories and weapons to retake the extremist stronghold, the government said.
The town is now under the control of Nigerian forces after the operation led by Cameroon special forces from Feb. 11 to Feb. 14, Cameroon’s communication minister Issa Tchiroma Bakary said late Monday.
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