Four members of the security forces were killed and more than a dozen wounded in clashes with the terrorist Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) over the weekend.

Three members of the security forces lost their lives when terrorists detonated hand-made explosives during heavy fighting in the central Sur district of Diyarbakır province on Sunday. One of those killed in the fighting in Sur, which has been under curfew since Dec. 2 due to military operations, was a police officer while two others were specialized sergeants in the Turkish army.

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A soldier and two civilians were killed during clashes with the terrorist Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) in Şırnak’s Cizre district on Thursday night, while a soldier was killed and five others injured in clashes in Diyarbakır’s Sur district on Friday.

A specialized sergeant was killed during the clashes in Cizre on Friday and two brothers were killed during clashes in the same district on Thursday night.

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Ukraine’s Armed Forces have violated the silence regime over the past day once, a source in the Defense Ministry of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR) told the Donetsk News Agency on Wednesday.

“The enemy has violated the ceasefire regime once over the past 24 hours,” the source said.

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French anti-terrorist forces operating in the Sahel region have attacked terrorist targets in northern Mali, notably striking a mobile column of the Al-Mourabitoun group there, a Defence Ministry statement said.

The operation took place two days ago in the Menaka region of Mali where troops from the “Barkhane Operation” intercepted an armed column of fighters, killing 10 militants in a four-hour fire-fight, the statement said.

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Turkish security forces have killed 54 Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) militants over three days of operations in the country’s southeast, a local broadcaster reported Friday.

The military counter-terrorist operations were conducted in Sirnak Province, targeting the towns of Silopi and Cizre, according to security sources quoted by the channel A Haber.

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