June, 2016

• 9 June

  Tunisia condemns Istanbul terrorist attack

  Eleven people including seven policemen and four civilians were killed and 36 others wounded in a car bomb attack on police bus this morning in Istanbul. Tunisia, on Tuesday, condemned the terrorist attack that targeted this morning Beyazit Square district in the Turkish city of Istanbul and claimed the lives …

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• 9 June

  Pro-govt forces take town near Libya’s Sirte from Daesh

  Forces loyal to Libya’s UN-backed unity government on Thursday announced that they had captured a town near Sirte following a month-long military operation aimed at retaking the north-central city from the Daesh terrorist group. In a Facebook post, the unity government said its forces had managed to “liberate” the coastal …

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• 9 June

  Libyan forces clash with Daesh on southeast border of Sirte

  In Libya, Daesh is battling to hold on to its stronghold of Sirte after forces aligned with the new unity government advanced on the city. Security sources said they made ground in the eastern and southern outskirts, taking control of at least one military camp. This hasn’t been confirmed. A …

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• 9 June

  Algeria: four terrorists killed Wednesday in Medea

  Four (04) terrorists were killed Wednesday, in Medea, by a detachment of the People’s National Army (ANP) in an operation that is still ongoing said, Thursday, the ministry of National Defence in a communiqué.

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• 9 June

  Algeria "strongly" condemns double terrorist attacks in Bagdad

  Algeria, through the spokesman of Foreign Ministry Abdelaziz Benali Cherif, “strongly” condemned the double terrorist attacks that targeted the Iraqi capital on Thursday. Algeria also expressed its solidarity with the Iraqi people.

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• 9 June

  Chad sends 2000 troops to Niger after Boko Haram attack

  About 2 000 troops from regional military powerhouse Chad headed to neighbouring Niger on Wednesday, where Boko Haram insurgents inflicted heavy losses in the town of Bosso last week, a military source said.

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• 9 June

  UN: Rebels kidnap dozens of civilians in DRC

  Nearly 100 people have been kidnapped in northeast Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) during an attack blamed on Uganda’s rebel Lord’s Resistance Army, the United Nations (UN) said on Wednesday. Lieutenant-Colonel Martin Amouzou Codjo, spokesperson for the UN’s MONUSCO peace mission in DR Congo, said the suspected LRA members had …

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• 9 June

  Militants raid Ethiopian base in latest Somalia attack

  Al-Shabaab fighters attacked an Ethiopian army base in central Somalia in the latest raid targeting foreign soldiers, deployed as part of an African Union force in the country, on Thursday. The al-Qaeda linked militants attacked the base in Halgan in Hiran region, using a suicide car bomber and gunmen but …

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• 7 June

  UN Security Council slams terrorist attack in north Mali

  The UN Security Council on Wednesday “condemned in the strongest terms” a terrorist attack on Tuesday against the camp of the United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in Mali (MINUSMA) in Gao, North Mali, during which one Chinese peacekeeper was killed. “The members of the Security Council expressed their deepest …

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• 7 June

  UN seeks more troops in Mali amid rising attacks

  The UN Security Council will be working on recommendations on capacity building for the UN peacekeeping mission in Mali (MINUSMA) as well as increasing its troop levels, said Francois Delattre, president of the Security Council for June. Delattre, also French Ambassador to the UN, said the recent attacks in Mali …

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