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Clashes broke out Friday between fighters of al-Nusra Front (Syrian branch of al-Qaeda) and rebels of Hazm Movement in the western countryside of Aleppo. The clashes followed attacks by Nusra militants against strongholds of Hazm in Aleppo earlier on Thursday, activists reported.
Al-Nusra group took control Thursday of the Hazm Movement’s headquarters in Salman Camp in the western countryside of Aleppo after a fierce battle between the two sides in the vicinity of the towns of Atareb and Orim.
On Thursday, a local source in Nineveh province said, that the paramilitary Kurdish Peshmerga forces repelled a violent attack on western Mosul and killed 30 elements of the ISIS group.
Ukraine’s military conceded Thursday that its forces had been overrun by Russian-backed separatist forces in another town in their battle to hold onto a strategically valuable railway hub.
A soldier wounded in combat for the town, Vuhlehirsk, said armored vehicles and tanks were used in the attack on government positions, forcing a hasty retreat.
Defense Ministry spokesman Vladislav Seleznyov said fighting is now under way to expel the rebels from Vuhlehirsk.
Islamic State’s Sinai wing claimed responsibility for attacks that killed at least 27 on Thursday night, the group said on its official Twitter account.
A series of tweets from the Sinai Province’s Twitter account claimed responsibility for each of the four attacks that took place in North Sinai and Suez provinces, in some of the worst anti-state violence Egypt has seen in months.
The army in the Democratic Republic of Congo announced Thursday a fresh offensive against Rwandan ethnic Hutu rebels after weeks of heavy international pressure to act.
But the military operation was being conducted without the assistance of the UN mission in the troubled central African country.
Chad’s army has driven Boko Haram militants out of Malumfatori town in north-eastern Nigeria, a senior official from Niger has told the BBC.
The reported capture of the town, which lies near the borders of Chad and Niger, follows two days of fighting.
Secretary-general of the rebel Sudan People’s Liberation Movement-North (SPLM-N) Yasir Arman (Photo: Reuters)
The secretary-general of the rebel Sudan People’s Liberation Movement-North (SPLM-N), Yasser Arman, said its forces had inflicted an historic defeat on the Sudanese army (SAF) in South Kordofan state.
In an interview with the London-based Alquds Alarabi newspaper on Wednesday, he said the pro-government militias known as the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) have mutinied against the Sudanese army in Talodi garrison in South Kordofan.