The Islamic State group has killed at least 68 US-backed fighters battling to oust the jihadists from their eastern Syria holdout of Hajin, a war monitor said Saturday

Suspected Islamic State group members planted the bomb in a pickup left outside the restaurant by an important highway in Hajjaj.

At least six people were killed when a suicide car bomb struck a local government office in central Mogadishu on Sunday, destroying the building and a Quranic school opposite.

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said one person was killed and others injured. The witness said two were killed and 25 injured.

Police said a car bomb parked in front of a restaurant at the busy street of Maka al Mukaram had exploded.

A car bomb and shellfire in Syria's capital Damascus killed two people and wounded several others on Wednesday, state television said.

Two people were killed and four wounded in a car bombing at a checkpoint west of Libya's biggest oil ports on Tuesday, a senior security official said.

At least four people were killed on Sunday in a suicide car bomb attack in central Mogadishu, police and witnesses said.

A bomb placed under a car exploded in Egypt's second city Alexandria on Saturday, killing two people including a policeman, state news agency MENA reported.

Witnesses said the explosion was caused by a car bomb on one of the capital's busiest streets that was packed with people heading home from work.

A suicide attacker blew up a bomb-laden vehicle in Kabul on Saturday, killing at least two civilians and wounding several others, an Afghan official said.

It was the second attack of its kind targeting security forces in the city, where UAE forces from the Saudi-led coalition that has been operating in Yemen since 2015 hold sway.