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One Turkish soldier and a policeman were killed in two separate attacks by the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) rebels on Sunday, Turkish media reported.
In one incident, PKK rebels attacked two military outposts in the Nizamiye district of the eastern Tunceli province. One soldier was killed in the attacks and four others were injured.
All brigades in Benghazi are to come under full control of the National Army, following an agreement that was struck between leading political and military figures together with local militia heads last night.
Officers from the Army are to be deployed to every militia barracks in Benghazi to assume full command, whilst several of the brigades involved in recent unrest, including Ansar Al-Sharia, are to be disbanded altogether.
Members of the Free Syrian Army attacked a Lebanese Army post Friday night near the northern border with Syria, the Army said in a statement Saturday.
No causalities were reported.
“For the second time in under a week, a unit from the Free Syrian Army [consisting of] a large number of gunmen entered Lebanese territory overnight via the outskirts of Arsal, where it attacked one of the Lebanese Army’s posts,” the statement said.
Puntland forces have been conducting security operations in Galkayo, the capital of Mudug region, arresting dozons of suspected al-Shabaab members, reports said on Tuesday.
The operations according to Puntand security officer Muhaydin Ahmed Muse who spoke to Shabelle Media, the operations have been to secure the city of Galkayo and to force out al-Shabaab agents active in the city.
The United Wa State Army (UWSA) has released around 20 soldiers from the Shan State Army-South (SSA-South) following a meeting between representatives of the two groups last Sunday, said an SSA-South spokesman.
The SSA-South soldiers were taken into custody for trespassing into UWSA-controlled area in Mongton township, eastern Shan State, on July 31. Since then, the two groups had been in tense negotiations for the release of those captured.
A Taliban rebel’s commander was killed in air bombardment in Helmand province.
Mullah Jahad Mal and three of his colleagues were came under air attack of NATO forces and killed.
Rebels seized control of a border crossing on the frontier with Turkey on Wednesday, pulling down the Syrian flag and briefly allowing people _ some jubilant, some wounded _ to crawl under a barbed wire barrier between the countries.
Turkish authorities quickly closed the area and police prevented the crowd from trying to storm the border and cross into Syria.
“I am a free Syrian!” shouted Zisha Bargash, throwing his hands in the air, as he watched the takeover from the Turkish side. “This is the beginning of the end Assad. Game over.”