Burkina Faso ambush kills 13 soldiers: security sources

Suspected jihadists have ambushed and killed 13 soldiers in Burkina Faso’s eastern province, security sources told AFP on Sunday, in the latest violence to shake the insurgency-torn west African nation. Four members of the defense forces were also wounded in…

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Drama at Police SFU unit as DPR Director vows to expose accomplices in N3b contract scam (Vanguard) Police detectives attached to the Special Fraud Unit SFU Lekki Lagos weekend, grilled a female Deputy Director, department of Contract and procurement (names…

Thirteen French troops killed in helicopter crash in Mali (BBC)

Thirteen French soldiers were killed when two helicopters collided during an operation against jihadists in Mali, the French president’s office said. Monday’s accident is one of the worst losses of life for the French military in decades. French President Emmanuel…

Suicide car bomber kills 11 in western Iraq (Channelnewsasia)

A suicide bomber blew up a vehicle in the town of Al-Qaim in western Iraq on Wednesday (Aug 29), killing at least 11 people, five of them security personnel, police said. The 9am (0600 GMT) bombing at a checkpoint on…

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