In August the army declared that it had killed Abubakar Shekau, the leader of Boko Haram; however, this was unconfirmed, and the group's operations continued.
There were unconfirmed reports of a second major operation against another attempted tunnel attack on Thursday evening, close to the Gaza border.
The extent of the operation was unclear but unconfirmed reports on Russian media, quoting separatists, speak of Ukrainian armour being on the move near the flashpoint towns of Sloviansk and Kramatorsk.
Unconfirmed reports Sunday indicated the U.S. operation was aimed at Shabab's charismatic leader, Ahmed Godane, who recently carried out an internal purge of the organization.
An unconfirmed report given to U.S. special operations forces said local Taliban fighters gave or sold the American to a timber merchant who then smuggled him across the border.
Brian O'Neill, a senior EU official who oversees the humanitarian operations in the region, says unconfirmed but "pretty solid" figures suggest that up to 250,000 people might have died of hunger in the last major food crisis in 2005 and perhaps 40-50,000 in 2010, another crisis year.
In recent weeks, there were unconfirmed reports that Afari had taken temporary charge of IS operations.
There were unconfirmed reports that the immediate danger had passed by evening and that rescue operations may have resumed.
"As you squeeze the balloon and move them, they are migrating toward Africa". Unconfirmed reports have already emerged from anonymous Pentagon sources of on-the-ground operations involving the US soldiers.
There are unconfirmed rumours that Twitter is also looking for an additional person to run operations for other French-speaking countries (Belgium, but also Morocco for example).
Then Phil Engelauf, a senior flight director representing the mission operations directive at Mission Control, received word from the outside world of an unconfirmed report that people had seen what appeared to be the breakup of the shuttle over Texas.
