A group of gunmen has attacked the parliament of Russia’s republic of Chechnya leaving at least three people killed in the assault.

According to Russia’s Interior Minister Rashid Nurgaliev, who is in the Chechen capital at the moment, the victims are two militiamen and one civilian. The latest reports say that at least 17 people have been wounded. The injured include seven police officers and 11 civilians.

According to investigative committee on Tuesday morning cars with deputies entering the territory of the parliament were followed by a car carrying terrorists. At least one suicide blast followed and up to three gunmen managed to break into the building and open fire. According to the country’s law enforcement agency all of them have been neutralised.

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Two field commanders of the Islamic opposition located in eastern Tajikistan’s Rasht Valley have reportedly agreed to lay down their weapons and join forces with government troops to “hunt down foreign militants.”

The independent news agency Asia-Plus quoted authorities in Rasht as saying that 27 members of armed groups commanded by Mirzokhuja Ahmadov and Mullo Sadriddin surrendered their weapons earlier this week.

The news came after local media reported on October 14 that Tajik officials were negotiating with local commanders in Rasht to end intense fighting that has been going on in the onetime militant stronghold for nearly a month. The ongoing military operation against militants began when 28 government troops were killed on September 19 when their convoy was ambushed in Rasht’s remote Kamarob Gorge.

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http://www.rferl.org … n_Rasht/2191514.html

Three soldiers of International Security Assistance Force (Isaf, under Nato command) have died today in western Afghanistan. 3 soldiers killed are not italians. Western region is that where are actually deployed almost more than 3.500 italian soldiers present in Afghanistan. Isaf referred only that the death occurred because outbreak of rudimentary bomb.

In last 24 hours 9 foreign soldiers died in attacks.

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Several dozen Russian official media outlets reported on October 9 that a video of Last Appeal by 4 representatives of guerrillas, fighting in the Far East of the present-day Russia for freedom and independence of their country - the Amur Republic with its capital in Vladivostok - had been posted on the Youtube.

According to informal polls, the majority of the population of in Russian Far East wants to join Japan as its mainland province or to have their own independent state.

Russian media outlets suggest that the guerrillas in the Russian Far East use military experience of the Mujahideen of the Caucasus Emirate, and perhaps, at least some of them have secretly converted to Islam.

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http://www.kavkazcen … 10/10/10/12604.shtml

Afghan taliban militias revenged this morning the attack made yesterday in Farah zone, in Afghanistan, in which four italian soldiers have lost life. In a statement diffused on own web-site, and signed by spokesman of west regions, Qari Muhammad Yusuf Ahmadi, “our armed attack against a logistical convoy of occupant forces in Gulistan, in Farah, 10 military vehicles have been destroyed”.

Taliban spokesman never mentions the nationality of our soldiers but explains that “extensive damages have been caused to enemy, we have killed and wounded many soldiers but at moment we don’t know exact number”.

Statement speaks about launches of rockets followed by first explosion, and it does add that have been executed other two attacks against Nato troupes on the same area in the morning and in the evening of yesterday.

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