Xinhua Middle East news summary at 2200 GMT, Feb. 24

TRIPOLI -- Clashes erupted on Saturday at a military checkpoint near the southern Libyan city of Murzuk between an army unit and militants, killing two soldiers and one militant, according to a military official.

"An exchange of fire took place between our troops and gunmen at a military checkpoint in Umm Al-Araneb area on the outskirts of the city, killing two members and one militant, and three other militants were arrested," Rajab Mehdi, a member of the army and police joint operations chamber in Murzuk, told Xinhua. (Libya-Clashes)

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TEHRAN -- A French delegation from ATR, a Franco-Italian aircraft manufacturer, travelled to southwestern Iran to examine causes of an ATR plane crash in Mount Dena, Tasnim news agency reported Saturday.

The French delegation, which arrived in Iran on Thursday, visited the plane crash zone in Mount Dena in accordance to the provisions of the Chicago Convention on International Civil Aviation, Mansour Shisheforoush, the head of the Crisis Management Department of Isfahan Province, told Tasnim. (Iran-France-Air Crash)

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ADEN, Yemen -- The Islamic State (IS) group claimed responsibility for the twin suicide bombings that struck the headquarters of the counter-terrorism forces in Yemen's southern port city of Aden on Saturday.

The IS group with its official news agency, Amaq, said in a brief statement that "two jihadist operations hit the camp of the counter-terrorism troops in Aden." (Yemen-IS-Suicide Bombing)

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KIRKUK, Iraq -- Two policemen were killed Saturday and three wounded in an attack by Islamic State (IS) militants on an oil well in Iraq's oil-rich province of Kirkuk, a police source said.

Ten to 15 IS militants carried out an attack in the evening on an oil well in Khubbaz oilfield, some 35 km southwest of the city of Kirkuk, the source from a police force tasked with protection of oil installations told Xinhua on condition of anonymity. (Iraq-IS-Attack) Enditem