Taliban attacks on Afghan security forces in the country's north have caused ‘heavy casualties’, officials said Thursday, putting the number of soldiers killed as high as 40 in fighting that is ongoing.

Qatar has strongly condemned the attack which targeted a rally of Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed, leaving one dead and several injured.

Dutch police have arrested three men whose DNA was found on weapons seized in a Paris suburb after law officers foiled a planned 2016 terror attack, Dutch prosecutors said Tuesday.

The 24-year-old man's death in northern Gaza followed a more than two-month surge in tensions along the frontier.

It was not clear if Wednesday's incident was linked to earlier attacks at churches and a police station in Surabaya.

A Farah government official and several residents said security forces were engaged in police districts two and three, around 4 km from the city centre.

Qatar strongly condemned the attacks that targeted three churches in Indonesia, leaving several dead and injured.

Qatar has expressed its support for the US, British and French military operations against specific military targets used by the Syrian regime in launching attacks on innocent civilians.

Al Shabaab insurgents battled for hours on Sunday with African Union troops after exploding a car bomb outside their base, Somali police, military and the militants said.

At least 25 civilians and members of government forces have been killed in northern Iraq since late Sunday in attacks by the Islamic State group, officials said.

Eight members of a German far-right group were jailed Wednesday on terrorism and attempted murder charges for a series of explosives attacks targeting refugees and anti-fascist activists.

Sunday saw further unrest when one person was shot dead after three people attempted to storm a roadblock in the early hours near the presidential compound, a government source said.