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Added on the 13/07/2019 18:14:20 - Copyright : AFPTV - First images
Images show Somali military personnel and a military vehicle on a Mogadishu street near a popular hotel which was under siege by Al-Shabaab Islamist militants. The siege ended on Friday after more than 13 hours with all the gunmen killed, a police officer told AFP. IMAGES
Gunfire can be heard near a hotel that was stormed by Al-Shabaab militants. Somali security forces have been engaged in an hours-long siege which has left eight civilians dead, according to a spokesperson for the national police. IMAGES
Aftermath of an Islamist militant attack on the Hayat Hotel in Somalia's Mogadishu, which killed at least 13 civilians, according to officials. Fighters from the Al-Qaeda affiliate Al-Shabaab stormed the Hayat Hotel in Mogadishu on Friday evening in a hail of gunfire and bomb blasts. IMAGES
Lebanese forces and a rescue team inspect a charred vehicle hit by an Israeli strike near the Lebanese town of Khiara, in the Western Beqaa District of eastern Lebanon. According to a Lebanese security source, the strike killed Ayman Ghotmeh, a commander from Jamaa Islamiya, a Lebanese group close to Hamas. IMAGES
Smoke billows from debris at the site of a deadly Israeli strike on the southern Lebanese village of Janata that killed at least one civilian and wounded seven others, according to the country's national news agency. The major attack comes after months of near-daily cross-border fire between the group and the Israeli military since Hezbollah ally Hamas's October 7 attack on Israel triggered the Gaza war. IMAGES