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Over 80 Pakistani militants, police personnel, and those from intelligence agencies, and counter-terrorism units have been killed in “Operation Herof Phase II”, the Baloch Liberation Army (BLA) claimed in a statement issued on January 31.
In a statement, the BLA claimed that its fighters carried out a series of coordinated attacks across multiple districts of Balochistan, describing the operation as “Operation Herof Phase II.”
Indian security forces have killed 16 Maoist rebel fighters, including a senior commander, in the eastern state of Jharkhand, as authorities intensify efforts to crush the long-running insurgency.
According to an international news agency, more than 10,000 people have died in the decades-old conflict waged by the guerrillas, who say they are fighting for the rights of marginalised Indigenous communities in mineral-rich regions of India.
The Syrian army has announced a curfew in the city of al-Shaddadi in the country’s northeast after the escape of ISIL (ISIS) fighters from the city’s prison amid clashes with the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), according to the state news agency, SANA.
The Syrian army told Al Jazeera Arabic on Monday that it was now in complete control of the city and the prison housing suspected ISIL detainees as its troops searched al-Shaddadi and its surrounding areas for the escaped fighters.
At least 12 people have reportedly been killed during two days of intense clashes between Syrian government and Kurdish fighters in the northern city of Aleppo.
Tens of thousands of civilians have also fled the Kurdish majority neighbourhoods of Sheikh Maqsoud and Ashrafieh, which the Syrian army shelled on Wednesday afternoon after designating them as “closed military areas”.
Yemen’s main separatist group and its institutions will be dismantled effective Friday, the group’s secretary-general said, following weeks of unrest in areas of southern Yemen and a day after its leader fled to the United Arab Emirates.
Abdulrahman Jalal al-Sebaihi said the Southern Transitional Council would shut down all of its bodies and offices inside and outside Yemen, citing internal disagreements and mounting regional pressure.
