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The Syrian army regained control of a road southeast of Aleppo on Wednesday, taking back the government’s only supply route into the city from Islamic State fighters who had seized it last month.
State TV said army forces took full control of the road which runs from Aleppo through the towns of Khanaser and Ithriya and links up with the cities of Hama and Homs further south. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitoring group confirmed the report.
Somaliland, a slim slice of Somali-inhabited territory on the southern shore of the Gulf of Aden, ticks almost all the boxes of statehood. It has its own currency, a reasonably effective bureaucracy and a trained army and police force.
The government, located in the capital city of Hargeisa, maintains a respectable degree of control over its territory: the country is, by and large, peaceful, in stark contrast to Somalia to the south—where bombings and a rampage through a popular hotel in the capital killed at least 14 people at the weekend.
Pakistani forces have killed two Indian soldiers in firing along the de facto border that divides Kashmir between the two countries, India’s army has said.
The incident happened in the Gurez area of Bandipora district on Monday evening, an army officer said.
Peshmerga forces have retaken a large area of Sinjar in northern Iraq from Islamic State (IS), according to a Peshmerga commander in the area.
The unnamed Peshmerga official revealed that they made significant advances against IS insurgents in the Yazidi town on November 1st.
The Nigerian Army said it cleared a suspected Boko Haram camp on Sunday and killed four insurgents in Duwabafi village of Borno State.
This is contained in statement by Sani Kukasheka, the acting director, Army Public Relations, on Monday in Maiduguri.
At least six militants belonging to a banned outfit were killed as they engaged in an exchange of fire with Frontier Corps (FC) in Johan area of district Kalat in Balochistan on Sunday.
According to an FC spokesperson, automatic weapons were recovered from the possession of the militants.
Suicide attackers have struck a popular hotel in the Somali capital Mogadishu, leaving 15 people dead.
Sunday’s fatalities reportedly included politicians, businessmen, other civilians and members of the security forces.
The death toll also includes the six attackers, senior security official Mohamed Hassan said.