Gunmen

Crime unit hit in second suicide attack in Yemen's Aden

Aden - Muslimchronicle

A criminal investigations unit was struck in a second suicide attack Sunday in the Yemeni government stronghold of Aden, after an assault on a security headquarters killed five soldiers, an official said. Gunmen stormed the crime unit and set files and archives on fire as a suicide bomber detonated an explosive belt in the entry to the building, the securityRead more

‘Pro-Daesh stragglers a threat to Marawi’‘Pro-Daesh stragglers a threat to Marawi’

Manila - Muslimchronicle

Armed stragglers supporting Daesh and hiding out among the ruins of a Philippine city after the end of a five-month battle still pose a threat to returning civilians, the military said on Friday. The admission came after authorities arrested an armed Indonesian militant this week and killed three other gunmen in the bombed-out southern city of Marawi. “The main battleRead more

Pro-IS 'stragglers' a threat to ruined Philippine city

Manila - Muslimchronicle

Armed stragglers supporting the Islamic State and hiding out among the ruins of a Philippine city after the end of a five-month battle still pose a threat to returning civilians, the military said Friday. The admission came after authorities arrested an armed Indonesian militant this week and killed three other gunmen in the bombed-out southern city of Marawi. "The mainRead more

Syria’s Al Bab witnesses increasing tensions

Damascus - Noura Khowam

Clashes took place after the midnight of Wednesday – Thursday, between the rebel and Islamic factions against the “Islamic State” organization, in the area of Da’bul Street in Al-Tadamon neighbourhood, and information about confirmed casualties in the ranks of the both parties. areas in Kafr Zita in the northern countryside of Hama were shelled after the midnight of Wednesday andRead more

Somalia sacks security chiefs as attack toll hits 27

Mogadishu - Muslimchronicle

The death toll from a deadly weekend attack on a hotel in Mogadishu has risen to 27, the Somali government said Sunday, announcing the dismissal of the country’s police and intelligence chiefs. The move came after Al-Qaeda aligned Shabaab gunmen staged coordinated bomb attacks outside a hotel in the north of the Somali capital on Saturday before storming the building.Read more

Senior Afghan official abducted in Pakistan, police official says

Peshawar - Muslimchronicle

The deputy governor of Afghanistan’s northeastern province of Kunar has been kidnapped in neighboring Pakistan, officials said Sunday, an incident which could further strain relations between Islamabad and Kabul. Muhammad Nabi Ahmadi arrived in the northwestern Pakistani city of Peshawar on Friday for an appointment with a doctor, senior police official Muhamad Sajjad Khan. “He was in the Dabgari neighborhoodRead more

Tunnels reveal militants' rat-like tactics in Philippine war

Marawi - Muslimchronicle

The main battle zone in a southern Philippine city seized by Islamic State supporters resembles a tsunami-hit wasteland, with bullet-riddled mosques and a network of tunnels testifying to their hide-and-kill tactics. Two days after the military declared an end to the five-month conflict in which more than 1,100 people died, scrawny feral dogs and swallows flying above the ruins wereRead more

Surrender or die: Filipino troops battling final 30 Daesh-linked gunmen

Manila - Muslimchronicle

Philippine troops on Sunday were battling a final group of about 30 pro-Daesh group militants who were surrounded in one building with all their hostages gone as a nearly five-month siege neared its end in southern Marawi city, a military official said. Army Col. Romeo Brawner said troops were aiming to end the crisis before midnight Sunday. He said theRead more

Suicide bombers, gunmen attack Afghan police training centre: officials

Khost - Muslimchronicle

Suicide bombers and gunmen launched an attack on a police training centre in southeastern Afghanistan on Tuesday, officials said, in the latest violence to rock the war-torn country. "At first a suicide bomber detonated a car filled with explosives near the training centre, making way for a number of attackers to start their assault" in Gardiz, capital of Paktia province,Read more

Gunmen kill two in attack on Kenya university students

Kenya - Muslimchronicle

Two staff members were killed and several students were wounded in Kenya when gunmen fired on vehicles carrying students to the Technical University of Mombasa’s campus in coastal Kwale county on Tuesday, a police official and a witness said. “A bus carrying students of TUM (the Technical University of Mombasa) was ferrying them from their hostels to the campus inRead more