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Five Turkish soldiers and 30 Kurdish militants have been killed in the past 24 hours in attacks and clashes across Turkey’s turbulent southeast region, security sources and the army said on Tuesday.
An estimated 57 people, including eight civilians, were wounded in the attacks, they said.
Burmese army’s 63rd Light Infantry Battalion troops on Friday attacked KIA 18th Battalion’s Nbu Kawng post at around 9 am, reported a KIA frontline source. Nbu Kawng post is located between Nam San Yang and Ban Dawng, just a few miles from KIA headquarters Laiza.
KIA source said Burmese army’s artillery unit pounded the KIA post with heavy artillery for about an hour. A KIA officer said, “According to information we received in the past days, Burmese army has a plan to attack and clear all KIA posts located on western side of Myitkyina-Bhamo road”. More troops have arrived in Namsan Yang, Gangdau Yang, Galang Ja Pa, and Seng Mai Pa since April 7.
The Afghan Taliban made the announcement on Tuesday in an email sent to media organizations around the world.
Every year the insurgent group declares the beginning of its “spring offensive” - the warm-weather fighting season - although this year the Taliban continued fighting in winter without a seasonal break.
The Islamic State (ISIS) managed to recapture the town of al-Rai on the Syrian border with Turkey on Monday morning.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitor reported that the town fell to ISIS after violent clashes with rebels.
Eight more Abu Sayyaf extremists have been killed and a top militant commander has been wounded as Philippine troops pressed a major offensive in the country’s south following the killings of 18 soldiers in fierce fighting over the weekend, the military said Monday.
Regional military spokesman Maj. Filemon Tan said four Abu Sayyaf gunmen who were wounded in battle Saturday later died and four other militants were killed in fresh fighting Sunday in the hilly outskirts of Tipo Tipo town on Basilan island.
A ruthless Abu Sayyaf commander, Puruji Indama, was seriously wounded in the head either by gun or artillery fire, Tan said. Indama has been linked to deadly bombings, kidnappings for ransom and beheadings of Filipino marines.
A guerilla attack on Peruvian soldiers on the eve of the country’s presidential elections killed seven people, authorities said Sunday, raising the previous day’s toll.
The head of the state prosecution service, Pablo Sanchez, said in a televised address that seven people were killed and five wounded in Saturday’s attack in the jungles of central Peru.
Loyalist and rebel forces in Yemen each pledged to honour a truce which began at midnight Sunday (2100 GMT) ahead of new talks aimed at ending more than a year of war.
The Iran-backed Huthis, along with allied troops loyal to ex-president Ali Abdullah Saleh, have sent the United Nations a letter committing to “cease land, sea and air military operations” throughout Yemen, according to a communique carried by the rebel-run Saba news agency.