Two soldiers and 55 militants were killed Tuesday in North Sinai during an extensive operation by Egyptian army against Islamists, military spokesman said in a statement.
The Nigerian troops in the oil-rich Niger Delta region said they have arrested six suspected pirates who killed four soldiers and a policeman in an attack on a military base.
Algerian army killed 16 armed militants affiliated to al-Qaida on Sunday, apparently in response to one of the deadliest militant attacks in months last week that claimed lives of at least nine Algerian soldiers, according to local media.
Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari on Monday fired military chiefs, a move obviously made to re- position the military in fight against Boko Haram, which has proved to be a hard nut to crack in the West African country, a presidential spokesman said.
Nigeria on Monday moved its military control center to the city of Maiduguri, the heartland of Boko Haram's insurgency and capital of the northeastern state of Borno, to engage in the routing of the terror group in the West African country.
Syrian forces and allied fighters dislodged the Islamic State (IS) militants from areas they stormed in the northern city of Hasaka, the state news agency SANA reported Sunday.
Burundian army spokesman Colonel Gaspard Baratuza has defied what he called rumors that there are divisions within the east African country's military.
Myanmar government troops have seized strategic Point 2202 tophill, the last stronghold of the Kokang ethnic army, in a latest offensive, local media quoted the military sources as reporting Friday.
Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos on Wednesday lifted the suspension of airstrikes on leftist guerrilla strongholds, after the members of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) allegedly ambushed and killed 11 government troops.
Heavy fighting between Myanmar gov't forces, ethnic army occurs near border with Bangladesh
The President of the European Commission Jean-Claude Juncker has called for the creation of an European Union(EU) army, German Newspaper Die Welt reported on Sunday.
207 Nigerian Islamic sect Boko Haram militants were killed by Chadian army in Nigeria on Tuesday, according to a statement of Chadian army released Tuesday night on state radio.
Myanmar government forces had claimed capture of some military bases of the Kokang ethnic army in five engagements over the weekend after air strikes, an official report said on Monday.
Top leader of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) Kim Jong Un recently stressed the need for the army to focus on rounding off combat readiness this year, state media reported Monday.
At least 22 militants have been killed as the Egyptian army launched several raids on their hideouts in northern Sinai province, a security official said on Tuesday.
At least 200 militants of Nigerian Islamic sect Boko Haram were killed Wednesday in a fighting with a joint army of Cameroon and Chad in Cameroon's Far-North Region, military sources told Xinhua over phone.
The Democratic Republic of Congo (DR Congo) army, supported by the intervention brigade of the UN Mission for Stabilization of Congo, on Sunday dislodged Uganda's Allied Democratic Forces (ADF) rebels from Mavume village in North Kivu province, an official said Monday.
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