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Hundreds of Kurdish fighters from Turkey have arrived in the Syrian Kurdish town of Ayn al-Arab to join a Kurdish militia group battling to hold off ISIS forces, activists said Saturday.
Clashes continue in the area between the militia, called the People’s Protection Unit (YPG,) and the ISIS fighters, according the London-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.
Dozens of people were killed by Boko Haram militants on Friday at a local market in Mainok area of Nigeria’s northeastern state of Borno, survivors and security sources said.
The attackers hit the market, located some 56 km from Maiduguri, capital of the restive Borno State, while buying and selling was at its peak, Bello Adamu, an eyewitness told Xinhua.
It just might be the most significant attempt at a truce yet.
Ukrainian authorities and Russian-backed rebels in eastern Ukraine agreed overnight in Belarus to create a wide buffer zone between each side’s forces, to withdraw heavy weapons out of reach of one another and to send foreign fighters home.
Tunisian armed group Uqba bin Nafi, tunisian branch of al-Qaeda in Maghreb (Aqmi), has announced an alliance with Islamic State (Isis).
The clashes between the Houthis and the military are ongoing in different areas in the capital, leaving nearly a hundred killed and wounded, several news agencies report.
As of Friday afternoon, fighting has continued in Al-A’anab area, near the barracks of the 1st Armored Division, and in 30 Meter Street near to the Iman University, a private university owned by the Islamic Sunni Cleric Sheikh Abdulmajid Al-Zindani, one of the senior leaders of the Islah Party.
As Burma’s government and ethnic armed groups prepare to meet for peace talks next week, on-and-off fighting between the Burmese Army and ethnic Karen rebels continues to plague eastern Burma.
The latest clash took place on Sept. 9 in an area controlled by Brigade 5 of the Karen National Liberation Army (KNLA), the military wing of the Karen National Union (KNU), near the Oo Thu Hta region of Karen State’s Papun District.
Fighting between rival Shiite and Sunni groups has intensified after weeks of anti-government protests.
Fresh clashes in Yemen between rebels and government allies has claimed over 20 lives on Tuesday and Wednesday.