Artillery attack challenges ceasefire in east Ukraine
KIEV/MARIUPOL Ukraine (Reuters) – Ukrainian government forces came under artillery fire late on Saturday near the strategic port of Mariupol in eastern Ukraine, in the first serious violation of a ceasefire declared only about 30 hours earlier.
Libya says Sudanese war plane loaded with ammunition for Tripoli enters its airspace
BENGHAZI Libya (Reuters) – Libya said a Sudanese military transport plane bound for a Tripoli airport under control of an armed group had entered its airspace, a government statement said on Saturday.
Strategy against Islamic State in hand, Obama now must make it work
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – It took President Barack Obama and his top aides a week to explain that he does in fact have a strategy for confronting the Islamic State militancy. Now he has to prove that he can make it work.
Supporters of Scottish independence take narrow poll lead for first time
LONDON (Reuters) – Supporters of Scottish independence have taken their first opinion poll lead since the referendum campaign began, according to a YouGov survey for the Sunday Times newspaper.
Somalia’s al Shabaab name new leader after U.S. strike, warn of revenge
MOGADISHU (Reuters) – The Somali Islamist militant group al Shabaab confirmed on Saturday that its leader Ahmed Godane had been killed in a U.S. air strike this week and named a new leader, promising “great distress” to its enemies.
Iraq air strike kills seven in hospital near Kirkuk
BAGHDAD (Reuters) – Iraq’s air force hit a hospital in a town controlled by Islamic State and other militant groups on Saturday, killing seven patients and wounding 22 others, including children, eyewitnesses said.
Boko Haram militants attack northeast town near Cameroon border
YOLA Nigeria (Reuters) – Boko Haram militants early on Saturday attacked another town in northeast Nigeria, pushing southwards in an apparent strategy to carve out an Islamist enclave in the remote north of Africa’s biggest economy, residents and local…
Islamic State says executes second Lebanese soldier
BEIRUT (Reuters) – Islamic State militants have beheaded a captive Lebanese soldier, images published on social media showed on Saturday, the second Lebanese soldier to be killed in captivity by the group since it raided a Lebanese border town last mon…
NATO stages major military exercise in Latvia after Wales summit
RIGA (Reuters) – NATO staged a major military exercise in Latvia on Saturday in a practical demonstration of NATO leaders’ commitment to defend its Baltic member states in the face of an assertive Russia.
Former general’s forces and Islamists clash in Libya’s Benghazi
BENGHAZI Libya (Reuters) – Heavy clashes erupted between a former general’s forces and Islamist fighters in the eastern city of Benghazi on Saturday, military officials said, one of several conflicts raging in Libya in the worst violence since Muammar …
