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The attack reportedly took the lives of more than 40 people and injured dozens more in a crowded market in the town of Sabon Gari. Under Shekau’s leadership, the terror group’s mission has been to drive out all followers of Christ from Nigeria. He was last heard from...

Douma is situated within the Syrian insurgent stronghold of Japanese Ghouta and is a daily goal of presidency air strikes.

Reprinted from Baptist Press (www.baptistpress.com), news service of the Southern Baptist Convention.

A bomb attack on a packed market in northeastern Nigeria bearing the hallmarks of Boko Haram killed around 50 people on Tuesday, sources said.

Prime minister Ahmet Davutolgu was in the capital Ankara as reports of the attack emerged and did not interrupt a speech being broadcast on live television.

Pakistan’s army has been carrying out a major military operation in North Waziristan since June 2014 in an attempt to eliminate local and foreign militants.

Three civilians were also injured in the firing, a statement from the military’s Inter-Services Public Relations said, adding that Pakistani troops bafflingly responded to the Indian firing.

Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP), viewed by Washington as the extremist network’s most risky branch, has taken advantage of the chaos to seize the southern port city of Mukalla, capital of the vast desert Hadramawt province.

He said he had given orders to hunt down the assailants, who have not been identified. Al-Bakry, who oversees the Aden governorate, was in the building at the time, meeting with high-profile military and security officials.

The Pakistani army has been carrying out a major military operation in North Waziristan since June 2014 to eliminate local and foreign militants.

Many militants in the region are believed to have fled to rugged mountainous regions in other parts of North Waziristan to escape government strikes.

12 militants were killed when security forces clashed with them in Pary Gharin area of South Waziristan Agency, security sources said.

Pakistani fighter planes have been bombing militant hideouts in Shawal for almost a week, killing scores of insurgents, according to military officials.

The UN statement was approved one day after Assad regime warplanes struck a rebel-held town near Damascus, killing at least 96 people.

The conflict has also pitted Houthi rebels and allied military units against a range of local opponents, southern secessionists, Sunni Islamists and al-Qaeda militants.