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Islamic State militants and Taliban insurgents have been fighting fiercely in eastern Kunar province this week, displacing hundreds of families, Afghan officials told VOA.
The displaced families, mostly women and children, are forced to take refuge in other parts of Chapa Dara district and are reportedly living in dire conditions.
Philippine security forces launched fresh assaults against pro-Islamic State militants Tuesday, leaving four enemies dead and two soldiers wounded in heavy clashes on the southern island of Mindanao.
The military offensives took place after militants belonging to the Bangsamoro Islamic Freedom Fighters (BIFF) overran a town hall in Datu Paglas in the southern province of Maguindanao, local military spokesman Capt. Arvin John Encinas told BenarNews. Soldiers repulsed the gunmen, he said.
Eight PKK terrorists have been killed in Turkish airstrikes in the country’s southeastern and eastern provinces, and in northern Iraq, the military said yesterday.
The Turkish General Staff in a message on Twitter confirmed that its fighter jets carried out airstrikes in northern Iraq’s Zap region, and in the rural areas of southeastern Şırnak and eastern Van provinces during the weekend.
SITE Intelligence Group says the Mali branch of al-Qaeda has claimed responsibility for a suicide bombing on French forces which officials said killed four civilians in the northern city of Gao.
The U.S.-based monitoring group said Monday the al-Qaeda-linked militants, known by the acronym JNIM, said the suicide attack, along with another Friday on the G5 Sahel headquarters, was a message to the “French and their African allies” referring to the African Union Summit in Mauritania which French President Emmanuel Macron is attending Monday.
Ukrainian Member of Parliament and leader of the Information Resistance information group Dmytro Tymchuk says the Armed Forces of Ukraine have retaken the village of Zolote-4 in Luhansk region under its control.
“According to information obtained by Information Resistance, late in June this year, a deep reconnaissance company of a unit from the [Ukrainian] Joint Forces reserve conducted a successful operation to liberate and take control of another important administrative unit, the village of Zolote-4,” Tymchuk wrote on Facebook on July 1.