Tuesday, March 22, 2016
Gunmen on Monday attacked a hotel in Mali’s capital, Bamako, that had been converted into the headquarters of a European Union military training operation, but there no casualties among the mission’s personnel.
There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the attack, which began at around 6:30 p.m. local time (1830 GMT), but Mali and neighbouring West African countries have increasingly been the target of Islamist militants, some of them affiliated with al-Qaeda.
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More than 70 al-Shabaab militants were killed and 30 others captured in battle with Somalia’s Puntland forces in the past four days, Mohamud Hassan, Puntland Minister of Information, has said.
Hassan who made the disclosure on Monday in Mogadishu, said the battle took place in Suuj Valley in Nugal region, Northern Somalia.
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Monday, March 21, 2016
A policeman and four soldiers were martyred in the southeastern Nusaybin town of Mardin province.
Security sources said the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) terrorists detonated a bomb targeting a military vehicle that was passing on a road between Dicle and Fırat neighborhoods.
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Sunday, March 20, 2016
Kenya Defense Force soldiers have killed 13 more al-Shabaab militants in Somalia, bringing the total number of the militants killed to 34 since Saturday.
KDF Spokesman Colonel David Obonyo says KDF soldiers operating under Amisom troops engaged the militants at Sarira, in Lacta Belt, about 30km North of Ras Kamboni after being tipped off about a planned attack on the troops.
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The Tunisian army fought militants in the west of the country on Saturday in clashes that left a soldier wounded, the defence ministry said.
“A soldier was wounded during an exchange of fire [on] Saturday morning between army units and a terrorist group at Jabal Samama” in the Kasserine region, Lieutenant Colonel Belhassen Oueslati told AFP.
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