Harm U.S. interests anywhere. We want to get the control gulf of Aden.
The wing of al-Qaeda in Yemen has called Monday all muslims of arabic penisula at jihad against christians and jews present in the region by an audio message diffused on internet by number two of the organisation. There is no other way out of this situation than combact a holy war, said Saeed al-Shehri, ex prisoner of Guantanamo, exhorting to attack everywhere american interests and the crusaders.
Militants have killed five Russian soldiers in the troubled North Caucasus region of Chechnya, officials say.
The gunfight broke out on Thursday night in forested mountains south-west of the region’s capital Grozny, Russia’s interior ministry said.
Russia’s Itar-Tass news agency said six more soldiers were wounded in the skirmish against some 15 militants.
Nigeria’s minister for foreign affairs has angrily responded to a question asked by his counterparts from Uganda and Ethiopia at the AU summit regarding the deployment of troops in Somalia previously pledged by his country and when that was likely to happen.
The minister said there is no peace to keep in Somalia and that any claims by some countries that they are going to restore peace and security in Somalia are insincere. The Nigerian minister of foreign affairs said they were not going to deploy their troops in Somalia.
United States and Afghanistan army are preparing a big offensive in Helmand province, fortress of talibans in south Afghanistan. Financial Times reports today. The top USA military believe that at least 1700 rebels hiding in Marjah.
Violent battle with heavy artillery in Mogadishu: the previous budget is of 5 or 6 dead and at least 14 wounded. Victims are almost all civilians and between them also a woman and a child.
24 sciite rebels have been killed in northern Yemen. Yemen Defence Minister announced it.
Yemen authorities are ready for a truce in northern of country if sciite rebels will accept six conditions for returnig peace. Council of yemenita national defense has announced it in an official announcement.
“Government is ready to stop military operations if rebels will be engaged to respect six points announced by Government, including what not to attack in Saudi Arabia and to free in short times saudi and yemeni detainees” the statement said.
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Outgoing Croatian president Stjepan Mesic earlier this month threatened to intervene militarily in the event that Bosnia’s Serb entity, Republika Srpska, attempts to secede and establish itself as an Independent State. He was responding to repeated separatist noises on the part of the Republika Srpska’s aggressively nationalistic prime minister, Milorad Dodik, who makes no secret of his hostility to the state of Bosnia-Hercegovina and his designs against its territorial integrity, and whose atrocity denial and friendship for convicted war-criminals indicate a dangerous contempt for the norms of civilised behaviour.
Mesic has warned that if Dodik announces a referendum on secession – as the first step toward the Republika Srpska’s unification with Serbia to form a ‘Great Serbia’ – he would send the Croatian Army south across the River Sava to cut in half the Bosnian Serb entity, which ‘would then have to disappear’.
Leader Yemen sciite rebels al-Houthi is ready to accept conditions of Government, but only if this will stop its “aggression”. In an audio message diffused in last hours on rebel internet website on on Youtube, Abdelmalek al-Houthi affirmed: ‘The ball is now in the enemy camp, because I announce to accept the five points (agreement of Doha in 2008), but only after the end of brutal aggression’, ongoing for 6 months.
The militant group Movement for the Emancipation of Niger Delta, MEND said Saturday declared an all out war on the government and oil firms in the area after it said it had called off the ceasefire pact made in the aftermath of the ground breaking amnesty arranged between the government and the militant groups operating in the oil rich region.
Saturday’s announcement also warned oil producing firms to vacate the region immediately, warning that they should be ready to accept responsibility for whatever happened to their staff who remain at their bases.
Heavy fighting raged early on Friday in the centre of Mogadishu between Islamist insurgents and soldiers of the African Union’s peacekeeping force in Somalia (Amisom).
Artillery exchanges and automatic weapons fire broke out around 02:00 (23:00 GMT on Thursday) and continued through the night. After dying down a little, the violence resumed in full intensity at dawn.
The fighting was concentrated around the strategic K4 junction halfway between the Somali capital’s airport and the port.
Reports reaching the Ogaden Online News Desk confirm the burning down of the town of Budle, Shabelle province by the Woyane army. Eyewitnesses indicate that the Woyane militias first looted all valuables in the town. Prior to torching the town, the marauding Woyane militias also took two young girls with them. We couldn’t confirm the names of the two young girls.
A meeting between the delegation of the Geneva talks Co-Chairs of the EU, OSCE and UN and the discussions’ South Ossetian participants – Special Representative for Post-Conflict Settlement Boris Chochiev, Foreign Minister Murat Djioev and others, was held in Tskhinval. The Co-Chairs’ Delegation was headed by the EU Envoy Pierre Morel. It is worth mentioning that after Kazakhstan has assumed the OSCE Chairmanship, the Organization is represented at the Discussions in Geneva by Ambassador Bolat Nurgaliev. Boris Chochiev had expressed his assuredness that the participation of new representatives in the Geneva Discussions would give new impetus to the talks.
According to Chochiev, the situation was difficult and the 9th round of talks would not be easy either.
“The more we work, the more we are interested in concrete results”. “Our southern neighbors continue to organize provocations, abduct our citizens and groundlessly blame us in many faults.This is the result of the fact that the aggressor did not receive any corresponding international assessment to its criminal actions. The Georgian authorities did not calm down event after the publication of the report of Tagliavini’s Commission, where thing were clearly explained”, said Chochiev. He emphasized that the South Ossetian side can provide proved evidences of Georgia’s being prepared for a new war.
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