Tag: attack
Soldiers killed in Lake Chad attack
At least 26 Chadian soldiers were killed by suspected Boko Haram assailants following an attack on a patrol in the Lake Chad area, army...
Boko Haram strikes in Niger
An attack blamed on Boko Haram killed 28 people and burned 800 homes in Niger’s Diffa region on Saturday, Nigerien authorities and the UN...
Ethiopia commission says Tigray youth group killed 600 civilians in 9...
Ethiopia’s state-appointed human rights commission said on Tuesday that a Tigrayan youth group stabbed, strangled, and bludgeoned to death an estimated 600 civilians with...
Al Shabaab, Somali clash leaves 13 dead
At least 13 Somali troops died after the army attacked militant group al Shabaab in jungle and farms near Afgoye north-west of Mogadishu, a...
Twelve dead in Ethiopia attack
At least 12 people were killed in the Metakal zone of Ethiopia’s Benishangul-Gumuz region, regional government spokesman Melese Beyene told Reuters.
The killings, on Monday...
Twenty-five die in Mali attacks
Suspected Islamist militants killed 25 people including 13 soldiers in multiple attacks in central Mali, burning down an army base and ambushing reinforcement troops,...
Six die in Burundi attack
Unidentified attackers shot and killed six people in northern Burundi, an official said, weeks after a similar attack in a southern province.
The group launched...
Attack on Aleppo prevented
Syrian air defences thwarted an Israeli attack on Aleppo, Syrian state television said.
The broadcaster later said the army downed several Israeli missiles before they...
Peacekeepers die in Mali bombing
Three UN peacekeepers were killed and four wounded when a routine patrol hit improvised explosive devices in the northern Mali region Aguelhok, the UN...
Mozambique villagers killed
More than 50 villagers in Mozambique’s troubled northern province were killed by Islamist insurgents after refusing recruitment to their ranks, police said.
“The young men...
Afghanistan Sikh complex attacked
Gunmen and suicide bombers hit a Sikh religious complex in the Afghan capital Kabul killing 25 people before security forces killed all the attackers,...
Afghan military base attacked
At least 27 security personnel died when a military base was stormed in Afghanistan one of the biggest attacks since a violence reduction agreement...
Israel blocks power station cyberattack
Israel foiled a major cyberattack on a power station, Energy Minister Yuval Steinitz said.
“It was a serious, sophisticated attempt to control and paralyse...
Burkina Faso village attack leaves 39 dead
Thirty-nine people were killed in northern Burkina Faso, in what government called a terrorist attack on a village in Soum province.
The weekend attack...
Yemen Houthi not responsible for Saudi oil attack
Yemen’s Houthi group did not launch an attack on Saudi Arabia oil facilities in September, a confidential report by UN sanctions monitors seen by...
Nigerian town attacked by militants
Twenty soldiers were killed and nearly 1 000 people left homeless after a militant attack on a town in north-eastern Nigeria, residents and a...
Mali accused of unauthorised military operation
The Malian army had no authorisation to cross into Burkina Faso and kill three people during a spate of ethnic violence last week government...
Twenty killed in Mali village attack
At least 20 people were found dead after an attack on a Fulani village in central Mali, where communal violence is common, government said.
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Civilians killed in DR Congo attack
Suspected Islamist militants killed at least 15 people in eastern DR Congo, local officials said, the latest massacre since the army launched a major...
Dozens still missing after mine convoy attack
Dozens of people were still missing on Thursday after an ambush near a Canadian-owned mine in Burkina Faso killed at least 37 and wounded...
Australians killed in Burkina Faso convoy attack
Australian mining services provider Perenti Global Ltd said 19 employees were among the more than three dozen people killed in a ambush of a...
Extra security for Burkina Faso mines
As jihadists wreak more havoc, mining firms in Burkina Faso rolled out extra security measures, from barracks for government troops protecting them to safe...
Burkina Faso convoy attacked
Thirty-seven civilians were killed and more than 60 wounded in an attack by an unidentified gunman on a convoy transporting workers of Canadian gold...
DR Congo village attack leaves 10 dead
Armed attackers killed 10 people and kidnapped two during a raid on a village in eastern Congo, a local official said, accusing them of...
Attackers kill three in Bujumbura neighbourhood
Gunmen wearing police and army uniforms killed three people and injured three others at a bar in a heavily guarded neighbourhood of Burundi’s biggest...
Sixteen killed in Burkina Faso jihadist attack
Suspected jihadists killed 16 villagers in northern Burkina Faso, an incident highlighting the increased presence of Sahel-based Islamists in the area, local and security...
Twin attacks on Burkina Faso military outposts
Four soldiers and a police officer were killed in two attacks on military outposts in northern Burkina Faso, the Burkinabe army said.
Raids by...
Burkina Faso mosque attacked
Gunmen killed about 15 people in an attack on a mosque in northern Burkina Faso during prayers on Friday, a security source and a...
Rwanda park attack retaliation
Rwandan security forces killed 19 people in a group that carried out a deadly attack in a tourist hub in the north of the...
Islamist insurgent attack in Somalia repelled
Cameras picked up two white trucks carrying bombs and fighters to Somalia’s most secure military base, home to US Special Forces, foreign trainers and...
Nigerian village attacked, residents abducted
More than 50 people, including pregnant women and children, were abducted in a raid on a village in north-west Nigeria, residents told Reuters.
The...
Militant attack in Burkina Faso leaves 20 dead
Unidentified militants killed at least 10 soldiers and wounded others in an attack on a military unit in northern Burkina Faso, the army said....
Houthis attack Yemen military parade
Yemen’s Iran-aligned Houthi movement launched missile and drone attacks on a military parade in Aden, the seat of the Saudi-backed government, killing more than...
Sixteen killed in Niger military base attack
Unidentified gunmen killed 16 soldiers in an attack on a military camp in western Niger, local residents and security sources said.
The raid happened on...
Seventeen Darfur deaths confirmed
The United Nations confirmed the killing of 17 people and burning of more than 100 houses in Deleij village in Darfur region of Sudan...
Mali death toll revised
Mali’s government dropped to 35 from an initial 95 its estimate of the death toll from a recent attack on a Dogon village.
In a...
Dogon villages attacked
Gunmen attacked two ethnic Dogon villages in central Mali, a local official, less than 50 km from the site of a similar attack in...
Nineteen killed in Burkina Faso attack
Unidentified assailants killed 19 people and wounded 13 in an attack on and around Arbinda in northern Burkina Faso government said.
Hundreds of people died...
Tripoli airport attacked
Eastern Libyan forces conducted an air strike for a second night on the military section of the only functioning airport in the Libyan capital,...
Saudi oil facilities attacked
Saudi Arabia said armed drones struck two oil pumping stations on Tuesday, days after oil tankers near the United Arab Emirates were sabotaged and...
Catholics killed in another Burkina Faso church attack
Unidentified assailants killed four Catholics and destroyed a statue of the Virgin Mary in northern Burkina Faso, a bishop said, the third deadly attack...
Islamic State Nigeria kill claims
Islamic State (IS) killed 11 Nigerian soldiers in an attack on Gajiganna town, the group claimed through its news agency AMAQ.
The Jihadist organisation said...
Three killed in hit-and-run attack
Three people were killed in a suspected hit-and-run attack by Islamic State militants on a town in southern Libya, residents and a military official...
Six killed in Burkina Faso church attack
Unidentified gunmen killed a pastor and five congregants in an attack on a Protestant church in northern Burkina Faso, government spokesman Remy Fulgance Dandjinou...
Mali army base attacked
Gunmen attacked a Malian army base in a dawn raid killing 11 soldiers and burning the camp in western central Mali, the army and...
Another USS Cole damages claim turned down
The US Supreme Court turned down a bid by family members of 17 sailors killed in the 2000 al Qaeda bombing of the Navy...
Al Shabaab attack Somali government building
Somalia’s al Shabaab stormed a government building, detonating a suicide car bomb in the heart of Mogadishu with at least 15 people, including an...
Fulani targeted in Mali attack
Gunmen killed at least 134 Fulani herders in central Mali, a local mayor said, the deadliest attack of recent times in a region reeling...
Sixteen killed in Mali army base attack
Gunmen attacked and briefly seized a Malian army base, killing at least 16 soldiers and destroying five vehicles in central Mali’s Mopti region, officials...
Nigerian governor’s convoy attacked
Lying in bushes by the side of a road, the security officer played dead and hoped militants would mistake the blood pooling from a...
