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Fighting broke out between the Kachin Independent Army (KIA) and Burmese government forces on Wednesday morning, said Daw Bawk Ja, an MP and the National Democratic Force (NDF).
The skirmish between Kachin troops and the government army lasted for one hour and civilians were forced to evacuate their homes in the Hpakant Township in the Gin Si village, she said. This follows President Thein Sein’s January 19 directive for a ceasefire.
Tensions on the Syrian-Jordanian border are rising as the conflict in Syria plays out dangerously close to its neighboring country.
The Jordanian border is only 70 kilometers from the Syrian capital Damascus. This explains why Bashar al-Assad’s regime is making sure the area remains tightly secured.
Similarly, Jordanian authorities are keen on stopping the crisis from spilling over into their territory.
One soldier died while five were wounded Tuesday after a landmine allegedly planted by leftist rebels hit two military vehicles in the southern Philippine province of Davao Oriental.
According to Lt. Col. Lyndon Paniza, spokesman for the 10th Infantry Division, soldiers from the Peace and Development Teams of 28th Infantry Battalion were on board the military vehicles when the New People’s Army (NPA) attacked them at Calapagan village in Lupon town around 12:20 am, local time.
The Malian army entered Douentza on Monday morning after regaining control of two other towns in anti- rebel operations with the support of French troops, the military told Xinhua.
Douentza is in the central region of Mopti, 165 km away from Sevare, the site for the operational command of Malian and French forces.
A total of 37 foreign workers died in a hostage crisis at an Algerian desert gas plant and seven are still missing, Algerian Prime Minister Abdelmalek Sellal said on Monday.
Mr Sellal also told a news conference that a Canadian had co-ordinated the attack by Islamists on the site near the Libyan border.
Colombia’s largest rebel group FARC on Sunday announced the immediate end of a two-month unilateral truce and renewed its call for a bilateral truce to hold peace talks with the government “in a tranquil environment.”
While talking to press in the Cuban capital Havana, the leader of the FARC’s negotiating team, “Ivan Marquez,” said that “with pain in our heart we must admit that we return to the time of military warfare that nobody wants.”
A Kachin rebel at Hka Ya Bhum, an outpost of KIA in Lajayang. (Photo: Steve Tickner / The Irrawaddy)
Ethnic Kachin rebels in Burma said clashes in the country’s north continued Saturday despite a government promise to cease fire, casting doubt over hopes that the bloody conflict there could end soon.
Burma’s military had declared Friday it would stop attacks against rebels around the town of Lajayang, near the country’s northeastern border with China, starting Saturday morning because it had achieved its goal of securing an army outpost there that had been surrounded by insurgents.