Friday

June 26, 2015

Armed conflicts and attacks

Somali Civil War

Al Shabaab militants attack an African Union base in the Leego district of Somalia and kills more than 70 African Union soldiers and seizes control of their military base. (Reuters) (VOA News)

Saint-Quentin-Fallavier attack

A man is decapitated and at least two others are injured during an attack in Saint-Quentin-Fallavier as a man carrying an Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant flag attacks a factory near the French city of Lyon. (The Local)

2015 Kuwait mosque bombing

At least 27 people are killed and 227 injured after a suicide bombing at the Shia Imam Sadiq mosque in Kuwait City, Kuwait. ISIL claims responsibility for the attack. (Al Jazeera), (Reuters)

2015 Sousse attack

Two hotels in Sousse, Tunisia came under attack from an unknown number of gunmen; at least 37 people have been killed and 36 injured. (Sky News), (BBC), (USA Today)

Syrian civil war

An Islamic State suicide bomber kills at least 20 people in the city of Hasakeh. (AFP via Yahoo! News)

June 2015 Kobani massacres

Islamic State kills 146 civilians in Kobanî, the second largest massacre since the start of conflict when the extremist group executed 700 members of the al-Sheitaat tribe in eastern Syria. (IBT), (VOA NEWS)

Business and economy

The Prime Minister of Greece Alexis Tsipras says that Greece will hold a referendum on a bailout deal with creditors on July 5. (BBC), (Reuters)