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Fighting resumed on Friday between the army and rebels in the Democratic Republic of Congo, the United Nations said, just days after peace talks were suspended.
Clashes took place some 25 kilometres (16 miles) to the north of the strategic eastern city of Goma, rebel spokesman Vianney Kazarama told AFP.
Tunisian security forces last night captured al-Khatib al-Idrissy, who is thought to be the chief of outlawed fundamentalist Islamist militia group Ansar al-Shariah Tunisia, sources said Friday.
He was captured in the central town of Sidi Ali Ben Aoun, where Islamic militia killed six national guardsmen on Wednesday. A police officer was gunned down in a separate clash on the same day.
Fighting between Burma government forces and the Kachin Independence Army continued yesterday in northern Shan state’s Mabein township, an area bordering Kachin state and the territory of KIA battalion 12 under 3rd brigade, the Kachin News Group has learned.
The clashes involved units from KIA battalions 12 and 27 and took place at Saga Nam Hkum near Je U village. Tuesday and Wednesday saw the Burma army repeatedly shell Mung Ding Pa village, according to a KIA officer based in the area. Yesterday one child was killed by a shell while four other villagers were injured, according to an individual who was able to speak to someone in the village.
There are more than 60,00 Iranians fighting alongside forces loyal to Syria’s authoritarian president Bashar al-Assad, the leader of the country’s main opposition alliance claimed on Tuesday.
‘’In Syria, there are over 60,000 fighters from Iran,” said Ahmad Jarba.
For this reason Iran should not attend Syrian peace talks dubbed Geneva II scheduled to take place next month, Jarba said.
Five members of the Tunisian National Guard Forces were killed on Wednesday during clashes with militants thought to be affiliated to Jihadists in the mountainous area south of the capital Tunis.
The clashes took place in Sidi Ali Belaoun village in Sidi Bouzid governorate, Tunisia’s arid heartland.
There are conflicting reports about the exact casualties, as some media put the death toll higher at seven, but the state TV said at least three were killed.
Ogaden National Liberation Front “ONLF,” official have claimed that their fighters attacked on Kebridahar town Airport on last week.
Our aim for this attack was to disrupt the visiting delegation in Ogaden and send a clear message to the puppet administration that serves only the colonial agendas in our people and land. The official said to Ogadentoday Press on the phone.
A picture taken on October 18, 2012 shows two Syrian rebels taking sniper positions at the heavily contested neighborhood of Karm al-Jabal in central Aleppo. Picture: AFP
A senior rebel commander in southern Syria was killed in fighting with government troops in the town of Tafas on Monday, sources on both sides.
Lieutenant Colonel Yasser Abbud, “leader of the Fallujah-Houran brigade… was killed fighting against regime troops in Tafas”, a spokesman for the rebel Military Council in the southern province of Daraa said.