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Southern Darfur state authorities have defeated a group loyal to SLM of Mani Arko Minnawi’s faction infiltrated into the state from Mazeed and Kariri areas in northern Darfur amid inter clash erupted between the movement’s loyalists.
Southern Darfur deputy governor Abdel karim Musa told (smc) that regular forces chased the group which had been destined to eastern part of Jebel Mara.
Turkey’s military has confirmed further air strikes against Kurdish rebel bases in northern Iraq.
It said nine attacks were carried out by Turkish aircraft on hideouts of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), mostly in the Qandil region.
Last Wednesday the military said it had carried out similar strikes, a day after eight Turkish soldiers and 26 PKK rebels were killed in clashes.
At least one person was killed and several others have been injured in an al-Shabaab attack on Somali government troops in Elasha Biyaha neighborhood, on the southern outskirt of Mogadishu, reports said.
Eyewitnesses said the fighting erupted after fighters from al-Shabaab ambushed on Somali military pick-ups en route to Afgoye district, 30 kilometers south of Mogadishu, killing Afrah Ali Afrah, the police chief in Elasha Biyaha area.
Turkish soldiers and Kurdish fighters clashed in the most intense battles of the separatist conflict this year, with 18 people killed in three army outposts in the southeast, Turklsh officials and security sources say.
Up to 100 Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) fighters launched simultaneous attacks at dawn on Tuesday on the three military observation points in Hakkari province near the mountainous border with Iraq, killing eight soldiers and wounding 16, the sources said.
Fighting between the Kachin Independence Army (KIA) and Burma’s armed forces broke out today in at least five different places in northern Shan state after two Burmese army columns were sent to the area as reinforcements, local residents told the Kachin News Group (KNG).
Both sides suffered casualties from skirmishes near two towns - Pangsai (also Kyukok) and Mongkoe (also Munggu), situated along the Muse to Kutkai road route.
The military wing of the Islamic resistance movement Hamas, Ezzedeen Al-Qassam Brigades EQB declared on Tuesday at 14:50 and 15:25 that its operatives in the Gaza Strip have targeted a nearby Israeli military base “Re’m” with 12 homemade projectiles as a response to Israeli continued crimes against our people in the Gaza Strip.
The Brigades announced in a military statement that the Israeli crimes will not pass without punishment and the Israeli enemy will pay the cost.
The Islamist militant group known as Boko Haram has claimed responsibility for deadly attacks on Christian churches in northern Nigeria Sunday.
The claim came in the form of an e-mail sent to journalists from the group’s purported spokesman, Abul Qaqa.
It said the group carried out the bombings because Christians have enjoyed government support while, in the words of the e-mail, “killing Muslims and destroying their mosques in northern towns.”