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Around 40 people, mostly pupils, have been killed at a school in western Uganda by rebels linked to the Islamic State group (IS). Boys staying in dormitories are among the dead. Several others, mostly girls, have been abducted, authorities say. Survivors told local media that the attackers used machetes against the students before throwing a bomb into a dormitory.
Efforts are underway in the troubled Mozambican region of Cabo Delgado to establish the whereabouts of a Zimbabwean who went missing in the town of Palma following terrorist attacks last month.
Iranian President Hassan Rouhani has fiercely criticised the US following a deadly attack on a military parade.Gunmen opened fire at Revolutionary Guard troops in the south-western city of Ahvaz on Saturday, in an attack claimed by both an anti-government Arab group, and Islamic State militants.
Six guards and 30 prisoners have died in a prison break in Iraq, the country’s interior ministry has said.
More than 4,000 US soldiers based at Fort Carson, Colorado, are heading to Kuwait, where they will take over as one of America’s largest ground forces in the region after President Barack Obama asked Congress to authorize military action against Islamic State militants.
Islamic State (IS) militants have entered the key Syria-Turkey border town of Kobane and are engaged in street-to-street fighting with Syrian Kurd defenders.
Air and missile strikes, thought to be carried out by U.S.-led forces, hit oilfields and Islamic State bases in the eastern Syrian province of Deir al-Zor overnight and early Friday, a monitoring group said.
The Islamic State militant group has released a video online purporting to show the beheading of US journalist James Foley, missing since 2012.