The United Nations Interim Security Force for Abyei (UNISFA) said "six troops were killed and six injured", including four seriously, when a drone hit their camp in Kadugli, the capital of South Kordofan state. All of the victims are from Bangladesh, it said.Bangladesh's interim leader Muhammad Yunus in a statement said he was "deeply saddened" by the attack, and put the toll at six dead and eight wounded. He asked the UN to ensure that his country's personnel were offered "any necessary emergency support".
UN peacekeepers are deployed to Abyei, a disputed region between Sudan and South Sudan.The Sudanese army published a video on its Facebook page showing fires blazing and two columns of smoke rising from the UNISFA base. The army-aligned government based in Port Sudan issued a statement condemning the attack and accusing the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) of being behind it. Sudan's war has so far killed tens of thousands of people, displaced millions and resulted in one of the world's worst humanitarian crises. Efforts to end the war have so far failed.
Meanwhile, 2 US Army soldiers, 1 civilian US interpreter killed, and three others wounded in terrorist attack in Palmyra, Syria says Pentagon. Officials said three other service members were injured in the attack, during which the gunman was "engaged and killed". US President Donald Trump wrote on social media that it was "an ISIS attack" against the US and Syria and said there would be "a very serious retaliation". The Syrian government has issued a statement condemning the attack.
No group has claimed responsibility for the attack, and the identity of the gunman has not been released. The ambush occurred in Palmyra, located in the centre of the country, while the soldiers were "conducting a key leader engagement", according to Pentagon spokesperson Sean Parnell. Syria recently joined an international coalition to combat IS and has pledged to co-operate with the US.
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