Army News from the Middle East Monitor

Six Bangladeshi peacekeepers were killed and eight others injured in a terrorist attack on a UN base in Abyei, Sudan, as reported by the Bangladeshi army on Facebook. The ongoing fighting has raised concerns, but the UN mission has not yet commented on the incident. The United Nations Interim Security Force for Abyei (UNISFA) has been deployed since 2011 in the region, which has seen longstanding conflicts between South Sudan and Sudan over the oil-rich area. The mission’s mandate was recently renewed.

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