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Kurdish YPG fighters in northern Syria
Syria’s Kurds on Thursday declared a federal region in areas under their control in the north of the conflict-riven country, but both the government and an opposition coalition rejected the move.
The announcement is likely to anger neighboring Turkey and has complicated peace talks in Geneva aimed at ending the five-year civil war.
Afghan security officials say more than two dozen people have been killed and several others injured as government forces and members of the Taliban militant group engaged in fierce clashes in the country’s central province of Uruzgan.
Aminullah Khaliqi, governor of Deh Rawood district, said on Wednesday that at least 10 members of security forces as well as 15 Taliban militants have been killed during skirmishes in the area, located 400 kilometers (248 miles) southwest of the capital, Kabul, over the past few days.
Violent clashes between soldiers loyal to Tobruk government and jihadist militants are referred also today in Benghazi, in Libya.
Military sources refer about intense artillery bombardment on army positions that caused at least 7 wounded, some of them in serious condition.
Two female suicide bombers killed 22 people Wednesday at a mosque outside the northeastern Nigerian city of Maiduguri, a military spokesman said.
The attack, which also wounded 18 people, occurred during morning prayers in the village of Ummarari, four miles from the center the capital of Borno state and heartland of Boko Haram.
Indian security forces claimed to have killed three terrorists out of 10-member fidayeen group consisting of belonging to Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) and Jaish-e-Mohammed that have sneaked into India from the border areas of Gujarat to carry out multiple strikes in the country.
Security officials received a tip off about the location of 10 terrorists.