Tuesday

December 30, 2014

Armed conflicts and attacks

Iraqi insurgency

Iraqi government forces and allied Shia militia recapture the town of Dhuluiya in Saladin Province, north of Baghdad, from the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant. (BBC)

Somali civil war

A US airstrike in Saakow kills the intelligence chief, Abdishakur, who was also known as Tahlil, of the Somali al-Shabab militants. (AP)

Arts and culture

Luise Rainer, German-born American actress (The Great Ziegfeld, The Good Earth), Academy Award winner (1936, 1937), dies of pneumonia at the age of 104. (BBC)