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More than 100 members of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) militant group have been killed or wounded in clashes with Turkish army forces in the restive southeastern part of the country, Milliyet newspaper reported.
Turkish military said in a statement on Saturday that over 100 PKK militants had been “neutralized” during the clashes, without specifying how many were killed and how many wounded.
Libyan forces show weapons they said they captured from ISIS militants during a battle in Sirte, Libya August 31, 2016. (Reuters)
Forces loyal to Libya’s Government of National Accord (GNA) said Saturday they have launched a new attack on ISIS diehards in the coastal city of Sirte.
“We are attacking the last Daesh positions in district three,” a GNA fighter told AFP, using an Arabic acronym for ISIS. The GNA forces media center confirmed on Facebook that the attack had begun.
Two bombs killed at least 13 people and wounded dozens outside a court complex in northwest Pakistan on Friday, a rescue official said, hours after militants killed two people in a Christian neighborhood in the same region.
Both attacks were claimed by Jamaat-ur-Ahrar, a breakaway Pakistani Taliban faction believed to be behind some of the past year’s deadliest attacks, including last month’s bombing of lawyers in the city of Quetta that killed 74 people.
At least two soldiers were reported dead and five other injured in an attack in North Sinai on Thursday evening.
According to local media reports, the attack took place in Al-Arish, after a road bomb exploded under their vehicle.
Militant fighters of the Islamic State (ISIS) launched a new offensive against Syrian regime’s army forces in Homs province and seized control of several security checkpoints in the vicinity of Palmyra city, local sources reported on Thursday.
Subsequent to clashes, ISIS fighters captured at least 11 security checkpoints from the pro-Assad forces north of the Syrian ancient city of Palmyra, east of Homs.