More than 30 peacekeepers were killed when al-Shabaab militants attacked a base in the southern Somali town of Leego on Friday, the Islamist group said in a statement broadcast on Radio Andalus.

“Amisom confirms there is an ongoing attack at their Leego Somalia base that started this morning,” the African Union Mission to Somalia, which is operating in Somalia with approval by the United Nations, said on its Twitter account. It gave no details of casualties.

The attackers used a car bomb to break through the fence of the base, about 140 kilometers (87 miles) from the capital, Mogadishu, before their soldiers opened fire, Feytan Omar, an officer with the Somali army who witnessed the attack, said by phone.

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-06-26/al-shabaab-says-it-killed-30-un-troops-in-attack-on-somalia-base

At least 27 people, including foreign tourists, were killed when at least one gunman opened fire on a Tunisian beachside hotel in the popular resort of Sousse on Friday, an interior ministry spokesman said.

Police were still clearing the area around the Imperial Marhaba hotel and the body of one gunman lay at the scene with a Kalashnikov assault rifle after he was shot in an exchange of gunfire, a security source at the scene said.

It was the second major attack in the North African country this year, and took place during the holy Muslim month of Ramadan.

"One attacker opened fire with a Kalashnikov on tourists and Tunisians on the beach of the hotel," said a hotel worker at the site. "It was just one attacker. He was a young guy dressed in shorts like he was a tourist himself."



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A suicide bomber blew himself up at a packed Shi'ite Muslim mosque in Kuwait city during Friday prayers, killing more than ten people, the governor of Kuwait City said.

The Islamic State militant group claimed responsibility for the attack in a statement posted on social media and said it targeted a "temple of the rejectionists" - a term it usually uses to refer to Shi'ite Muslims, whom it regards as heretics.

It was the first suicide bombing attack on a Shi'ite mosque in the small Gulf Arab oil exporter, where Sunnis and Shi'ites live side by side with little apparent friction.

Islamic State on Tuesday urged its followers to step up attacks during the Ramadan fasting month against Christians, Shi'ites and Sunni Muslims fighting with a U.S.-led coalition against the ultra-radical group.

http://in.reuters.com/article/2015/06/26/kuwait-blast-idINKBN0P619G20150626

Islamic State fighters killed at least 145 civilians in an attack on the Syrian town of Kobani and a nearby village, in what a monitoring group described on Friday as the second worst massacre carried out by the hardline group in Syria.

Fighting between the Kurdish YPG militia and Islamic State fighters who infiltrated the town at the Turkish border on Thursday continued into a second day, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitoring group and a Kurdish official said.

A separate Islamic State assault on government-held areas of the northeastern city of Hasaka was reported to have forced 60,000 people to flee their homes, the United Nations said, warning as many as 200,000 people may eventually try to flee.

Islamic State has a record of conducting large scale killings of civilians in territory it captures in both Iraq and Syria, where it has proclaimed a caliphate to rule over all Muslims according to an ultra-hardline vision of Islam.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/06/26/us-mideast-crisis-syria-idUSKBN0P60UY20150626

Attackers used guns, explosives, and vehicles to kill civilians across three continents today, with the Islamic State militant group claiming responsibility for at least one of the massacres. The terrorist attacks in Tunisia, France, and Kuwait come after the group, also known as ISIL, released a message this week calling for attacks during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan—though there is no evidence to date that the incidents were coordinated.

“Muslims, embark and hasten toward jihad,” said Islamic State spokesman Abu Mohammed al-Adnani in an audio message, according to the New York Times. “O mujahedeen everywhere, rush and go to make Ramadan a month of disasters for the infidels.”

In Tunisia, a man killed at least 27 people, including a number of foreign tourists, in a shooting at the Imperial Marhaba hotel in Sousse, Tunisia. A hotel employee told Reuters that there “was just one attacker. He was a young guy dressed in shorts like he was a tourist himself.” Sousse is a popular seaside destination, full of resorts that draw visitors from all over Europe and north Africa. The attack took place on the beach.

http://qz.com/438380/three-far-flung-terrorist-attacks-kill-at-least-38-people-after-an-isil-call-for-ramadan-jihad/

Three fatal terrorist attacks on three continents within hours of each other have left officials fearful that a coordinated campaign of terror is underway, following last week’s calls for “a month of disasters for infidels” by Islamic State.

On Friday morning, at least one individual drove a car into a gas processing plant outside the industrial city of Lyon in France. The perpetrator beheaded one person, and injured two others, before hanging a severed head with Islamist flags and Arabic inscriptions on the factory gate.

http://rt.com/news/270001-france-tunisia-kuwait-attacks/

France, Kuwait, Tunisia, Syria, and Iraq were all hit at once.

Terrorists launched simultaneous attacks in five countries from Thursday into Friday morning, hitting separate targets in Tunisia, France, Kuwait, Syria, and Iraq within hours of each other. It was not immediately clear whether the attacks were coordinated.

The Tunisian government confirmed that at least 27 people in two hotels were killed in a shooting attack in the beach-resort town of Sousse, where one attacker also reportedly detonated a suicide vest in the Imperial Marhaba hotel. A Twitter account supposedly linked to ISIS has claimed responsibility for the attacks, which also purportedly left one gunman dead.

In Kuwait City, a terrorist detonated a suicide vest at a Shiite mosque, killing at least 16 people and sending several to the hospital in “critical condition.” According to The New York Times, ISIS has claimed responsibility for the attack.

http://www.vanityfair.com/news/2015/06/terrorist-attacks-unfold-five-countries