Syria Democratic Forces, with air support from the US-led coalition, have taken near complete control of Manbij, the group announced. Islamic State fighters had held the northern Syrian city near the Turkish border since 2014.

The US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), a coalition of Kurdish and Arab fighters, had fought since June to drive Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS/ISIL) out of Manbij, a key city on the supply route behind the jihadist group stronghold of Raqqa and the Turkish border.

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Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko on Thursday put the military on highest state of alert along the frontier with Crimea after Russia accused Kiev of making attempted incursions into the annexed region.

Moscow’s FSB security service said Wednesday it had thwarted “terrorist attacks” by Ukraine’s military on the Black Sea peninsula that Russia seized from Ukraine in March 2014.

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In a major step toward ousting the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) from the jihadist group’s main Libyan stronghold of Sirte, pro-government forces said they had captured ISIS’ headquarters in the city.

Though ISIS fighters remained in several other parts of the city, officials said, but seizing control of their headquarters - the Ougadougou Centre, a conference centre where ISIS had set up base - has been the key goal of the forces loyal to Libya’s Government of National Accord (GNA).

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A skirmish broke out between the Burma Army and the Kachin Independence Army (KIA) near the armed group’s Laiza headquarters on 7 August.

After the Burma Army sent troops from the Shadan Pa banana plantation in Nam San Yang to Bandawng Kahtawng on the Myitkyina-Bhamo Road—on the way to Laiza—fighting started in Ja Ing Yang at 3 pm, lasting one hour.

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At least five Malian soldiers are missing after clashes with a terror group, security sources told Anadolu Agency on Tuesday.

Intense fighting broke out between the Macina Liberation Front, an affiliate of Ansar Dine — a terrorist group linked to Al-Qaeda in the Maghreb Islamic (AQIM) — and the Malian army Monday after terrorists ambushed a military convoy in the Mopti region.

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South Sudanese rival forces have clashed around a strategic town, Yei, which is about 160 km south of the national capital, Juba, and towards the Ugandan border.

This is after the opposition forces of the Sudan People’s Liberation Army (SPLA-IO) under the leadership of the former first vice president, Riek Machar, captured Lasu county, southwest of Yei.

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Over the weekend, nearly 100 people were killed in protests organized in different parts of Ethiopia.

According to Amnesty International, 67 people died when “security forces fired live bullets at peaceful protesters” in different towns and cities in the Oromia region over the weekend.”

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