Militants have ambushed a convoy of United Nations peacekeepers in northern Mali, leaving five Chadian soldiers dead and injuring three others, UN sources say.
The United Nations on Thursday reported its first peacekeeper death in the Central African Republic since it took over the duties of trying to calm months of unprecedented violence between Christians and Muslims.
Militants in Syria have captured a group of UN peacekeepers monitoring the ceasefire line between Syria and the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights.