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The Anadolu news agency on Saturday reported that 260 PKK members have been killed and between 380 and 400 wounded in the bombardments launched a week ago by the Turkish army on their positions in northern Iraq.

Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) militants attacked a military outpost and a police vehicle in southeast Turkey overnight, killing a policeman, officials and security sources said on Sunday, in further violence jeopardising a fragile peace process.

Nigerian troops have rescued 178 people from Boko Haram in attacks that destroyed several of the Islamic extremist group’s camps in the north east, according to the army.

Another soldier was killed in an attack in neighbouring Agri province.

While nine casualties were reported at the US base, Camp Integrity, including one global service member and eight Afghan contractors Nato-led coalition forces confirmed.

The PKK claimed responsibility for Monday’s bombing of the police station in which four people died, three of them attackers.

The new Taliban leader scored an important victory Thursday, however, when al Qaeda boss Ayman al-Zawahiri – one of the most prominent jihadists in the world – pledged allegiance to the Taliban.

Iraqi Kurdish officials said Saturday six people had been killed in a pre-dawn strike by Turkish war planes on the village of Zarkel and there have been reports of civilian casualties.

A suspected suicide auto bombing at a busy intersection near the entrance to Kabul’s worldwide airport today has killed at least five people and wounded another 16, said Afghan officials.

Before it was cut off, the water supplied some 4,000 people in the West Bank.

The governor’s office for Agri province says Kurdistan Workers Party, or PKK, militants attacked a military police station with an agricultural vehicle laden with explosives early Sunday.

His posts often were critical of Islam.

A number of other Natoservice members and foreign contracted civilians were wounded in the Friday night attack, North Atlantic Treaty Organisation spokesman Coonel.

Four Turkish soldiers were killed and dozens were wounded in separate PKK attacks over the weekend in Turkey’s predominantly Kurdish southeast as violence escalated.

At least 47 people were killed and almost 100 injured in two bomb attacks on Monday in eastern Iraq, security and medical sources said, underscoring a continued threat from Islamic State of Iraq and Levant (ISIL) militants in a province previously considered freed of them.