A suicide car bomb detonated at a military base in Iraq's western province of Anbar on Monday, killing at least 38 members of the security force and wounding 25 others, a provincial source told Xinhua.
A joint security operation conducted by Africa Union troops and Somali military killed at least 11 Al-Shabaab fighters, and recovered explosive devices in Bulobarde town of the Hiran Region, central Somalia.
A total of 28 Islamic State (IS) militants were killed Monday in the U.S.-led coalition airstrikes and clashes with the Iraqi security forces in the province of Anbar, a provincial security source said.
A total of 47 people were killed on Thursday in separate clashes between the Islamic State (IS) militants and Iraqi security forces in the provinces of Salahudin and Anbar, security sources said.
South African President Jacob Zuma is not responsible for a corruption scandal in relation to security upgrades of his private home and therefore should not pay back the money, Police Minister Nkosinathi Nhleko said on Thursday.
Iraqi security forces on Sunday continued advance and clashes with the Islamic State (IS) militants in the northern central province of Salahudin, while U.S. -led coalition and Iraqi aircraft pounded suspected IS positions in Anbar province, a provincial official and security sources said.
Taliban militants have intensified activities since launching their annual spring offensive on April 24 and since then they have conducted a series of deadly attacks, mostly in the shape of suicide bombings which have claimed the lives of numerous civilians, according to security officials.
China issued its first white paper on military strategy on Tuesday, stressing the "active defense" guideline and pledging closer international security cooperation.
The fall of Ramadi, capital of Iraq' s largest Anbar province, to the hands of Islamic State (IS) militants is a big blow to both the U.S. policy and the Iraqi security forces who originally were preparing to free the territories held earlier by the extremist group.
Amid unabated Taliban-led insurgency and frequent suicide attacks, it is almost unthinkable that Afghanistan has had no defense minister for over seven months and this situation, according to political observers, could further add to the breakdown of security in the war-torn country.
About 86 Taliban militants have been killed during military operations and clashes with the security forces within the past 24 hours, said the authorities on Tuesday morning.
Iraqi security forces and allied Shiite and Sunni militias on Monday are building up at a military base in Iraq's western province of Anbar, preparing for a major counter-offensive to recapture the provincial capital city of Ramadi that fell in the hands of the Islamic State (IS) militants after deadly battles in the past few days, a provincial security source said.
The Islamic State (IS) militant group on Sunday took full control of the city of Ramadi, the capital of Anbar province, Iraq, after the Iraqi security forces withdrew from their positions, a provincial security source said.
Fighting terrorism is not restricted to security confrontation but it is a comprehensive plan including eliminating poverty and ignorance and promoting enlightening and renewed religious speech to deal with misconceptions and extremist thoughts, Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi said on Tuesday during his monthly televised speech.
A total of 28 people were killed, including three suicide bombers, and over 28 others wounded in bomb attacks and clashes with the Islamic State (IS) militants across Iraq on Sunday, while gunmen abducted nine people in eastern the country, security sources said.
Iraqi security forces on Thursday continued fighting Islamic State (IS) militants in different areas across the north central province of Salahudin, a provincial security source said.
Iraq on Tuesday dispatched reinforcement to Salahudin province to fight IS militants trying to take the country's largest oil refinery, security sources said.
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