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The 2023 Anambra ambush was a violent attack on a United States consular convoy in the town of Atani, [3] in Southeastern Nigeria. Several unidentified assailants opened fire on the convoy as it was traveling along a road, then setting the corpses of the dead and their vehicles on fire.
When news of the attack reached Abakaliki the state Commissioner of Police, Peace Abdallah, led a combined force of Nigerian Army soldiers and state police officers to Afikpo in an attempt to drive off the hoard of pirates. The pirates opened fire once they had spotted Nigerian government forces but were met with an equally impressive show of ...
Militants attacked a Malian Army base and a Wagner Group base, killing 5 people. Jama'at Nasr al-Islam wal-Muslimin: Mali War: 31 May Stabbing 1 5 (+1) Mannheim, Germany: 2024 Mannheim stabbing: A man stabbed several people at a rally. A police officer who was injured in the attack died two days later. [55] Sulaiman Ataee: Islamic terrorism: 5 ...
The Navy repelled multiple Houthi attacks involving at least three anti-ship cruise missiles, five anti-ship ballistic missiles, and eight one-way attack drones, the Pentagon press secretary, Air ...
The SY Quest incident [2] occurred in February 2011 when Somali pirates seized the American yacht SY Quest (s/v Quest) and four United States citizens. The United States Navy ordered the aircraft carrier USS Enterprise and three other ships to free the hostages. All four hostages were shot by their captors.
The Spanish coastguard rescued two Nigerian migrants who stowed away on the rudder of a ship that arrived in the Canary Islands from Togo, a coastguard spokesperson and the police said on Tuesday.
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Haiti’s National Police agency says that it has recovered a hijacked cargo ship laden with rice following a gunbattle with gangs that lasted more than five hours.
Nigerian waters remain hotspots for piratical acts, having the highest number of pirate attacks in the world in 2020. [ 85 ] [ 59 ] Furthermore, there has been no prosecution of pirates up until recently, despite the compelling evidence confirming that piracy and armed robbery against ships within the Nigerian maritime domain have remained ...