Egyptian Army says it also confiscated firearms and improvised explosive devices from fighters in the restive peninsula. Forty-seven fighters and five Egyptian soldiers were killed during Egypt’s ongoing military offensive in the restive Sinai Peninsula, [ More … ]
Source inside Saleh’s party claim Houthis ‘executed and maimed’ former president, while Houthis say he was killed in ambush outside capital The former president of Yemen, Ali Abdullah Saleh, was killed on Monday in a [ More … ]
Saudi-led airstrike has killed civilians, including women and children, in capital, Sanaa. At least 14 people, including women and children, have been killed in an airstrike on Friday in a residential neighbourhood of Yemen’s capital [ More … ]
A Palestinian security officer in Gaza was killed and another was injured when an unidentified assailant blew himself up near the Egypt-Gaza border at dawn on Thursday. Spokesperson of the Gaza Ministry of Interior and [ More … ]
Egyptians demand answers after a Coptic teenager was found dead, bearing alleged signs of torture after being detained for two days. Shocking images showing the body of an Egyptian teenager with extreme “torture marks” have [ More … ]
Four Somali soldiers were killed by a roadside bomb and two others were injured yesterday, according to reports in Al Jazeera. The improvised explosive device exploded in the town of Baidoa, south west of the [ More … ]
Two police officers on Saturday evening were killed by unknown gunmen who carjacked an ambulance coming from Central Darfur state capital, Zalingei. The government of Central Darfur said in a statement on Sunday that gunmen [ More … ]
Egypt’s Abdel Fattah al-Sisi orders campaign to recover state-owned land that has been encroached upon One person was killed and 50 people were injured in clashes on Sunday as security forces tried to evict squatters [ More … ]
The attack was one of the deadliest against the military in an insurgency that has killed hundreds of policemen and soldiers in the past four years Egypt held funerals on Saturday for at least 21 [ More … ]
The Egyptian military also said it killed 40 militants as it clashed with assailants in North Sinai Twenty-six Egyptian soldiers were killed or wounded on Friday in attacks on checkpoints in the Sinai Peninsula where [ More … ]
Two retired army officers and a police conscript were killed on Wednesday morning in a militant attack that targeted their checkpoint in al-Ayat, a town in the Giza governorate. According to state-run newspaper Akhabr Al-Youm, [ More … ]
A Palestinian was shot and killed by Israeli forces on Wednesday evening during a raid in the southern occupied West Bank city of Hebron. According to an Israeli army spokesperson, Israeli forces, whom Israeli media [ More … ]
Egypt is currently battling several armed groups concentrated mainly in the Sinai Peninsula Egypt’s air force struck a unit of ‘Sinai Province’ , killing 12 members of the Islamic State (IS) affiliated group and destroying four [ More … ]
A US military airstrike destroyed an al-Shabab training camp, killing eight suspected militants, officials said. The US military in Africa says it carried out an airstrike in southern Somalia that killed eight alleged al-Shabab militants [ More … ]
Thirteen soldiers killed after helicopter hits high-voltage transmission line minutes after take-off. Turkey’s military says 13 soldiers have died in a helicopter crash near the border with Iraq. A military statement said the AS532 Cougar [ More … ]
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