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A car bomb struck the convoy of a Yemeni southern military commander in Abyan province, killing two soldiers and seriously injuring two others on Tuesday, a military official said. Brigadier General Abdul Latif al-Sayed survived the assassination attempt, said Mohammed Read More …
A militant attack on an army base in central Mali on Friday killed at least 27 soldiers and wounded 33 more, the government said. Seven soldiers are still missing following the complex attack in the rural commune of Mondoro, which Read More …
Pakistan’s military has repelled nighttime assaults on two army bases in the southwestern Balochistan Province that killed up to 12 soldiers and 15 militants, authorities say. An ethnic separatist group, the Baloch Liberation Army (BLA), has claimed responsibility for the Read More …
Clashes are still going on for the second consecutive day between the fighters of the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) and the Internal Security Forces of North and East Syria (Asayish) with aerial support by the US-led Global Coalition on one Read More …
Kurdish-led forces in northeast Syria on Thursday said they thwarted a prison break at a detention center holding Islamic State (IS) militants. A spokesperson for the US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) said a car bomb was set off near Geweran Read More …
A car bomb exploded on a road leading to the airport in the Somali capital Mogadishu on Wednesday, killing at least eight people, the head of the city’s ambulance services said. Mogadishu resident Mohamed Osman said the shock of the Read More …
An Islamist suicide bombing outside a school in Somalia’s capital killed eight people and wounded at least 23 including 13 children, the latest in a string of deadly blasts this year in a country beset by political turmoil and drought. Read More …
Troops of the Nigerian Army’s operation Hadin Kai have killed over 50 fighters of the Islamic State in West Africa Province (ISWAP) in Askira Uba LGA of Borno state. ISWAP had, on Saturday, killed Dzarma Zirkusu, a brigadier-general and commander Read More …
At least 12 civilians were killed Saturday in a blast near the airport of Aden, the Yemeni government’s interim capital, a senior security official told AFP. “Twelve civilians were killed in an explosion” in the vicinity of Aden airport and Read More …
A car bomb targeting the governor’s convoy shook Yemen’s southern port city of Aden on Sunday killing at least six people and wounding seven, the information minister said on Twitter. Governor Ahmed Lamlas and agriculture minister Salem al-Suqatri, both members Read More …
A suicide car bomb blast has killed at least eight people at a security checkpoint near the presidential palace in the Somali capital, in an attack claimed by the al-Qaeda-linked al-Shabab group. The checkpoint falls on the route to the Read More …
When a Hellfire missile was launched on Aug. 29 at a target in a Kabul neighborhood — a parked car suspected of containing explosives for use in a suicide attack — U.S. military officials said they were confident the driver Read More …
At least three civilians were killed in a car bomb attack carried out by the PKK’s Syrian offshoot, the YPG, in northwestern Syria, Turkey’s Defense Ministry said Sunday. The explosion in the Afrin region also injured six civilians, including three Read More …
The Taliban has displayed suicide vests and bombs during a weapons parade, while bizarre footage showed its fighters doing combat displays as the group celebrates its conquest of Afghanistan. The chilling weapon parade, broadcast on Afghanistan state television, saw devices Read More …
There is a “very high risk of a terrorist attack” against the evacuation operation by the UK, US and other allied forces in Kabul, according to a senior British source. The group that is of most concern is an Islamic Read More …
An Islamic State (IS) suicide bomber attacked on Sunday a security checkpoint belonging to the eastern-based army in the southeastern Libyan town Zalla, without causing any casualties. “An IS suicide bomber attacked the Zalla checkpoint with a car bomb, causing Read More …
Fifteen Malian soldiers were killed and 10 others wounded when a booby trapped vehicle exploded Thursday in Mali’s central Mopti region, the Defense Ministry said. “The convoy of the Malian Armed Forces (FAMa) leaving Douentza for Boni was the target Read More …
At least eight people, including a woman, were killed and more than 20 others were wounded in a car bomb blast near the residence of Acting Defense Minister Gen. Bismillah Mohammadi on Tuesday night, the Interior Ministry said on Wednesday. Read More …
Mogadishu Police Chief, Col. Farhan Mohamud Adan, on Saturday survived after an explosion targeting his convoy occurred in Benadir junction in Mogadishu. Speaking to the media Somali Police Spokesman Sadiq Adan said the attack four people including the guards of Read More …
One policeman was killed and more than 21 others, including civilians, were wounded in a car bomb blast in southern Kandahar province on Tuesday afternoon, the Interior Ministry said in a statement. The blast took place about 2pm local time Read More …