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A Sinai-based militant group claimed responsibility for firing missiles at the Israeli city of Eilat in the early hours Tuesday morning, in response to what it described as “the killing of four of the Mujahideen in Sinai.”
In a statement acquired by Egypt Independent, the Mujahideen Shura Council in the Environs of Jerusalem said, “This was a swift response to the recent crime of the Jews, in which they killed four Mujahideen in Sinai, bombing them with a Jewish unmanned aircraft.”
More than 100 people were killed in violent clashes on Saturday between two Arab tribes over land and cattle in Sudan’s East Darfur state, the two sides said but local and national authorities kept silent.
Conflict between the Rizeigat and the Maalia , two pastoralists tribes, broke out on Sunday around a pasturage area located north of Al Da’ain the state capital. Both groups claim that Kilaikil area as part of their territory.
Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, an al-Qaeda faction, has claimed wave of attacks in last 48 hours that caused more than 70 dead in Iraq, most of them in 11 car-bombs esploded in Baghdad in areas shiite majority.
Syrian rebels claim to have killed at least 40 Hezbollah militants and Iranian agents in Damascus over the weekend.
According to their reports, rebels belonging to the Free Syrian Army detonated a car packed with explosives next to a compound belonging to the government defense apparatus, where the pro-Assad fighters were gathered. Members of the Shabiha, the regime’s civilian-clad enforcement apparatus, were reportedly also at the compound when the blast occurred.
The Palaung State Liberation Front (PSLF) leaders refused to sign a state-level ceasefire during the July 31 meeting with the government’s Union Peace-making Working Committee (UPWC) in northern Shan state.
Since then, government forces have been bolstering their presence near PSLF-affiliated towns like Kutkai, Nankhan and Namtu. PSLF Chairman Tar Aik Bone said this latest move is a pressure tactic to force them to sign a ceasefire.
In this photo released by the Syrian official news agency SANA, the bodies of rebel fighters are seen on the ground, killed in an ambush by Syrian forces near the Damascus suburb of Adra, Aug. 7, 2013.
Syrian government forces killed more than 60 rebels Wednesday in an ambush near Damascus, a blow to opposition fighters confronting a regime offensive in the capital, activists said.
The state news agency SANA confirmed the ambush near the Damascus suburb of Adra at dawn, saying “dozens” were killed. The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said at least 62 rebels died. It did not report any government casualties.
Fighting’s occurred at different regions in Somalia between AMISOM troops,Ethiopian troops and SNA troops against al-Shabaab fighters.
In Baidoa, al-Shabaab troops attacked government troops which forced the SNA troops to retaliate.