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Boko Haram insurgents on Saturday night raided Kuda-kaya village in Madagali, Adamawa State to steal food and medical supplies, residents and officials said.
The sources said scores of fighters stormed the village, two kilometres from Gulak, the administrative headquarters of Madagali, for the attack.
Thirteen Philippine marines were killed and at least 40 others were wounded in a 14-hour clash with militants linked to the Islamic State in the city of Marawi, the military said on Saturday.
It was believed to be the deadliest single-day toll for military forces battling Islamist militants from the Abu Sayyaf and Maute groups that seized part of the city in May, beginning a wave of violence across Marawi and displacing tens of thousands of Filipinos.
A deadly airstrike in Yemen kills three young siblings, and leaves dozens hurt.
Officials say missiles launched by fighters of the “Arab Alliance” hit a neighborhood in the capital of Sanaa on Thursday.
More than 60 people have reportedly been killed in Somalia after heavily armed al-Shabaab fighters stormed a military base in the country’s semiautonomous state of Puntland, local media reports said.
The al-Shabaab claimed that they had seized a large amount of weapons and ammunition in the assault.
Iran’s Parliament (Majlis) and the mausoleum of the late founder of the Islamic Republic Imam Khomeini in the capital Tehran have come under terrorist attacks.
According to reports, a dozen people have been killed in Wednesday’s attacks while another 42 have been injured and admitted to 3 hospitals to receive treatment.