Wednesday

February 10, 2016

Armed conflicts and attacks

Boko Haram insurgency

Two female suicide bombers kill more than 58 people at a camp for displaced people in Dikwa, Nigeria. (CNN) (Al Jazeera) (Reuters) (ABC News)

At least six people are killed and more than 30 injured in a twin suicide attack in Cameroon near the border with Nigeria. (International Business Times) (Newsweek)

PKK rebellion (2015–present)

At least two Turkish Army soldiers are killed in clashes with Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) insurgents in the southeast Şırnak Province. (Rudaw)

Syrian Civil War

Northern Aleppo offensive (2016)

The Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) reportedly take control of the Menagh Military Airbase in the northern Aleppo Governorate after Ahrar ash-Sham, Levant Front and Free Syrian Army fighters withdraw amid Russian airstrikes. (Al Masdar News)

War in Donbass

Four people are killed after a minibus hit a landmine near a Ukrainian military checkpoint in the Donetsk Oblast. (Kyiv Post)

Business and economy

Adair Turner former head of the U.K.'s Financial Services Authority, warns against the growth of peer-to-peer lending, telling the BBC that the practice will cause grave losses over the next five to ten years. (BBC)