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More than 800 al-Qaeda fighters have been killed in an assault by the Yemeni government and Arab allies on the group’s main stronghold of Mukalla, according to the Saudi-led coalition.
The coalition said in a statement, carried by the official Saudi news agency SPA late on Sunday, that many al-Qaeda members had fled the city, the provincial capital of Hadramout, which they had held for a year.
Heavy clashes erupted Sunday between Kurdish peshmerga forces and Shiite paramilitary troops inside a contested town north of Baghdad, a spokesman said.
A quarrel between two neighbors, a Kurd and a Shiite Turkoman, evolved into a military confrontation between the peshmerga forces and Shiite fighters who share the town of Tuz Khormato, said Karim al-Nouri, the spokesman for Iraq’s paramilitary forces — which are made up mainly of Shiite militias.
Two major Al-Shabaab training camps in Southern Somalia have been bombed by Kenyan jet fighters during an impromptu airstrike on Friday night, residents said.
A senior army commander in Kismayo, who asked to remain anonymous said the Kenyan military warplanes struck Al shabaab controlled Behani and Abdalla Birole areas, some 40Km south of Kismayo city.
Forces loyal to Libya’s internationally-recognized government have pushed Daesh out of the key eastern city of Derna, with the terrorists fleeing to their main stronghold in Sirte.
Abdelkarim Sabra, the spokesman for Derna’s Omar Mukhtar Security Operations Room, said on Thursday that Daesh had escaped in some 32 vehicles.
Mass slaughter of hundreds of men, women and children by soldiers in Zaria and the attempted cover-up of this crime demonstrates an utter contempt for human life and accountability, said Amnesty International as it publishes evidence gathered on the ground revealing how the Nigerian military burned people alive, razed buildings and dumped victims’ bodies in mass graves.