Three army officers and a soldier were killed in an explosion in Egypt’s Western Desert on Wednesday after a clash with militants, the military said. The incident comes days after Islamic State group jihadists gunned down 29 Christians in an attack southwest of the capital.

France says several French soldiers have been injured, including one seriously, in a mortar attack on a United Nations peacekeeping camp in Mali. The French military said in a statement that Thursday’s attack occurred in Timbuktu near the site where a French unit is based.

Algeria’s army on Friday shot dead two suspected Islamists south of the capital Algiers days after gunmen in the same region wounded four policemen, the defence ministry said. The army killed the two, seizing two Kalashnikov rifles, ammunition and a pair of binoculars, in the Bougarra area of the Blida …