Iraqi security forces Wednesday repelled an attack by Islamic State (IS) militants, including a suicide bombing in the oil refinery town of Baiji in the Salahudin province, killing at least 12 IS militants and 12 security members, a provincial security source said.
A total of 44 people were killed Tuesday in the U.S.-led coalition air strikes and clashes between Iraqi forces and Islamic State (IS) militants in Iraq, security sources said.
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.
A total of 28 people were killed and over 29 others wounded on Monday in bomb attacks and clashes with Islamic State (IS) militants across Iraq, security sources said.
The Myanmar government on Tuesday declared a state of emergency in Kokang region of the northeastern Shan State and introduced martial law following week-long armed clashes between the government forces and the Kokang ethnic army.
At least 22 Egyptian soccer fans were killed and some 20 others injured in the clashes with police on Sunday night in the capital Cairo, Egypt's state-run MENA news agency reported.
The death toll from clashes on Sunday between protesters and the police has risen to 23, as Egypt marked the fourth anniversary of its 2011 revolution that ousted former president Hosni Mubarak, the Health Ministry statement said on Monday.
The extremist Islamic State (IS) militants on Sunday executed 19 local policemen in Iraq's western province of Anbar, while seven IS militants were killed in clashes in the northern central province of Salahudin, security source said.
A total of 67 people were killed, including 15 border guards, in clashes with Islamic State (IS) militants across Iraq on Monday, while the Iraqi forces recaptured seven villages in eastern the country, security sources said.
At least eight people were killed and four others seriously injured on Tuesday in inter- communal clashes in northern Kenya's Isiolo County.
A total of 14 people were killed and more than seven others wounded on Monday in clashes between Sunni tribesmen and Islamic State militants in a town in the predominantly Sunni province of Salahudin, a local security source said.
Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko dissolved parliament on Monday and called for early elections on Oct. 26, as tensions were still running high in eastern Ukraine amid fighting between government forces and separatists.
The Ukrainian Foreign Ministry on Wednesday called on the international community to be objective and restrained while assessing the political situation in the East European country.
At least 49 people were killed and 247 others injured on Saturday during clashes between supporters of ousted Islamist president Mohamed Morsi and security forces across Egypt, health ministry said Sunday.
A total of 3,000 policemen were mobilized on Monday to restore order in Algeria's southern province of Ghardaia, after tribal clashes which broke out on Friday left one killed and 55 others injured there, a local security source told Xinhua.
Iraqi security forces backed by Sunni tribes battled al-Qaida militants Sunday in Anbar as hundreds of families left their homes in the restive western province, police source and officials said.
Tribal clashes erupted in the northern Libyan port city of Sirte on Tuesday, leaving two people dead and three others wounded, medical sources told Xinhua Wednesday.
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