The Kirkuk-Ceyhan oil pipeline was bombed May 8 in the district of Shirqat in Iraq's Salah ad Din province, a source in the North Oil Company said, Alsumaria reported.

Libyan militias withdrew their trucks with mounted machine guns from outside the foreign and justice ministries May 8, but protesters remained, AFP reported.

Syrian regime forces captured Khirbet Ghazaleh, a strategic southern town on the highway to Jordan, from rebel fighters on May 8, Reuters reported.

Twenty-two police officers, 14 prison officials, two soldiers and four civilians were killed when alleged Boko Haram members attacked Bama, Nigeria, on May 7, the Nigerian military said, Reuters reported.