Sunday, July 22, 2018
Six members of Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula have been killed in a battle with government forces backed by the UAE in south-east Yemen.
“The fighting flared up between our forces and a cell affiliated with al-Qaeda in Wadi Sur, in the mountainous chain that stretches between Al Musainya area and the district of Markha to the north of Shabwa,” Col Mohammed Al Bowhar, commander of the elite forces in Shabwa, told The National yesterday.
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Eighteen people have been killed in an attack by suspected Boko Haram extremists in the Lake Chad region, a Chadian military source said Sunday.
“Boko Haram elements attacked a village south of Daboua,” not far from Chad’s border with Niger, at around 9:00 pm (2000 GMT) on Thursday, the military source said.
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Saturday, July 21, 2018
At least 11 soldiers were killed in clashes with gunmen in western Iran on Saturday, according to the official IRNA news agency.
Another eight soldiers were injured in the violence that took place in Marivan city in Kordestan province, provincial security chief Reza Mirzaee said.
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Friday, July 20, 2018
Somalia’s Islamist militant group al-Shabaab has captured a small but strategic town 100 km (60 miles) south of Bosaso city in the semi-autonomous Puntland region, a military officer, al-Shabaab and residents said on Friday.
Residents in Af Urur told Reuters that the town is now controlled by al-Shabaab.
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Thursday, July 19, 2018
Bloody clashes between Daesh and Taliban fighters have left more than 120 dead on both sides over the past three days in Afghanistan’s northern Jawzjan province, officials said Thursday.
At least 72 Taliban and 52 Daesh fighters were killed in the clashes that took place in Qushtepa and Darzab districts while around 100 others, including 60 Taliban fighters, were injured, spokesman for Jawzjan governor Mohammad Reza and provincial council Abdul Qadeer Maleya told dpa.
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