Friday

October 23, 2015

Armed conflicts and attacks

Boko Haram

Two suicide bombings at mosques kill at least 33 people in the northeast Nigerian cities of Yola and Maiduguri. (Premium Times) (Reuters) (Media24) Archived 2015-10-24 at the Wayback Machine (AFP via Yahoo)

War in North-West Pakistan

A bomb detonates in a Muharram procession in Jacobabad killing twenty-four people, including 10 children & 6 women and several others injured. (Dawn)(Samaa News)

Syrian Civil War

Islamic State fighters take control of a section of road running between the towns of Khanaser and Ithriya, southeast of Aleppo, according to a monitoring group. This threatens the Syrian army's only supply route into the city. (Reuters)

Second Libyan Civil War

At least nine people are killed and dozens injured in the eastern Libyan city of Benghazi after several mortar shells hit a protest against a UN proposal for a unity government to end the four-year long crisis in the country. (Reuters)

Arts and culture

Adele returns from a three-year hiatus with the new single "Hello" from the album 25. (Forbes) (BBC)