Suicide bombers attack restaurant in Somalia

A police official said a security guard died while fending off suicide bombers who were trying to storm into a popular Mogadishu restaurant.

Yusuf Abdi said Saturday that security guards at the gate of The Village restaurant shot at the two suicide bombers who tried to enter without going through the security check.

Abdi said the bombers detonated their explosives killing one guard. The blast shattered the restaurant’s glass windows and punctured the tires of luxury cars parked outside.

CAIRO — The international peacekeeping force in Sudan’s Darfur region said Saturday that its forces were blocked by the military from reaching the destination of an alleged attack that killed 10 people.

The hybrid UN and African Union peacekeeping force, UNAMID, said in a statement that mourners brought 10 bodies reportedly killed in Friday’s attack to the gate of its headquarters in Darfur on Saturday.

The Sudanese military blocked its convoy from reaching the area of the alleged attack to gather information on the incident, it said.

BEIRUT — Three Syrian tanks entered the demilitarised zone in the Golan Heights on Saturday, Israel said, raising concerns violence from Syria’s civil war could heat up a long-quiet frontier that has not seen such an incursion in nearly 40 years.

Israel complained to UN peacekeepers present in the area, a relatively low-key response that suggested it did not see the Syrian armor as an immediate threat.

The entry marks the most serious spillover of Syria’s turmoil to date at the frontier, where stray ordnance has exploded on the Israeli side in the past.

OUAGADOUGOU, Burkina Faso — Representatives of an al-Qaida-linked group that controls northern Mali arrived on Saturday in Burkina Faso for talks with President Blaise Compaore.

Campaore is trying to mediate a solution to the conflict in the west African nation.

A second delegation traveled to Algeria for talks with regional leaders there, officials said.

In Burkina Faso, the Malian government was also represented at the talks, indicating that the country’s legitimate government is willing to negotiate with an armed group known to be in lockstep with the terror network’s chapter in Africa.