Tag: #Militant
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Militant attack on Mali military camp leaves 20 dead: army
Bamako, Jan 27 (AFP/APP): Twenty members of the security forces were killed on Sunday in a major assault by suspected militants at a military camp in Mali near the border with Mauritania. The attack on the Sokolo camp around dawn left “20 dead and five wounded” and “four dead on the enemy’s side,” the army…
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Somali militants kill 3 Americans in attack on Kenya military base
Nairobi, Jan 6 (AFP/APP): Militant from Somalia on Sunday stormed a military base used by United States forces in Kenya’s coastal Lamu region, killing three American citizens and destroying several aircraft and military vehicles, officials said. Attackers breached heavy security at Camp Simba at dawn but were pushed back and four militantts killed, said army…
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Israel strikes militants in Gaza despite ceasefire
Gaza City, Palestinian Territories, Nov 15 (AFP/APP): Israel launched fresh strikes against militants in Gaza, the army said early Friday, weakening a ceasefire put in place after fighting this week killed 34 Palestinians in exchanges of fire. The ceasefire began Thursday morning following two days of deadly violence in the Gaza Strip triggered by an…
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15 killed in suspected rebel attacks in Thailand’s south: army
Yala, Thailand, Nov 6 (AFP/APP): At least fifteen people were killed in attacks by suspected militants in Thailand’s violence-wracked south, an army spokesman said on Wednesday, the latest incident in the 15-year bloody insurgency. Thailand’s three southernmost provinces have been in the grip of a conflict that has killed more than 7,000 people, as Malay-Muslim…
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Mali president says stability at stake
Bamako, Nov 5 (AFP/APP): Mali’s President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita has appealed for citizens to unite behind the country’s army, after the latest deadly militant strike killed more than 40 soldiers. The president has declared three days of mourning after Friday’s attack on an army base in Indelimane, the northeast of the country near the border…
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Deputy mayor among 4 killed in Burkina Faso ambush: sources
Ouagadougou, Nov 4 (AFP/APP): Four people including the deputy mayor of a northern Burkina Faso city were killed in an ambush on Sunday in an area plagued by recurrent militant attacks, sources said. “The deputy mayor of Djibo and three companions were killed in an attack by unidentified armed assailants,” an administrative source told AFP.…