Islamic militants have taken control of a village in northern Iraq as bombings and shootings killed at least 27 people nationwide.
Gunmen led a predawn raid on the village of Sarha, setting off a truck bomb.
Thursday, 20 March, 2014
Afghanistan: Explosions and gun battles hit Jalalabad city
A group of suicide bombers attacked a police headquarter in the first district of Jalalabad city in eastern Nangarhar province.
The incident took place early Thursday morning and several explosions were heard near the police station, while the insurgents exchanged fire with the Afghan security forces for several hours.
Wednesday, 19 March, 2014
South Sudan: Clamorous, UN provides weapons to rebels led by Riek Machar ?
From peace agreements in 2005 that ended civil war between North and South Sudan, the mandate of UN peace keeping in South Sudan (UNMISS) is to protect civil population and to support Juba government in the strengthening of democratic institutions.
With the start of civil war between president Salva Kiir and rebel coalition led by Dr. Riek Machar and Rebecca Garang, UNMISS has been more times suspected to have an active part supporting the rebels, committing so a serious violation of principle of neutrality that rules peace interventions of United Nations.
Israel: Israel strikes Syrian army targets after border blast, 1 dead and 7 injured
IDF forces struck a number of Syrian military and security targets connected to the blast that injured four Israeli soldiers on Tuesday, the IDF Spokesman said early on Wednesday.
The attack killed one person and wounded seven others, Syria’s armed forces said, warning that the attacks endangered stability in the region.
Tuesday, 18 March, 2014
Syria: Army prepares for offensive in Qalamoun mountains
Syrian army forces were Monday readying an assault on the last rebel-held areas in the Qalamoun mountains, located on the Lebanese border, after overrunning the key opposition bastion Yabrud.
“The army will, under the battle plan, launch operations in all areas where terrorists are to be found,” a security source in Damascus told AFP.
Sunday, 16 March, 2014
Mali: French air strikes kill leader of Movement for Unity and Jihad in the Islamic Maghreb (MUJWA)
French air strikes in northern Mali have killed Islamist militant Oumar Ould Hamaha, a jihadist with a $3 million U.S. government bounty on his head, Malian military sources said on Friday.
Hamaha, known as ‘Red Beard’ because of his henna-dyed whiskers, became a leading figure in the Islamist coalition that seized control of northern Mali in April 2012 after drifting among armed Muslim groups in the Sahara over the last decade.
Syria: Syrian army captures strategic border town of Yabroud
Syrian forces, backed by Lebanese Hezbollah fighters, are in full control of Yabroud after clearing out rebels holed up in the strategic Syrian town for months, Syrian state media and opposition activists have reported.
Capturing Yabroud, the last major rebel bastion near the Lebanese border north of Damascus, will help President Bashar al-Assad secure the land route linking his Mediterranean coastal stronghold with the capital Damascus, and choke off a cross-border rebel supply line from Lebanon.