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Libyan rebels have launched an offensive in the mountains southwest of the capital, Tripoli, in an effort to move their front lines closer to Tripoli, Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi’s stronghold.
Rebels used heavy arms Wednesday to push into the al-Qawalish area, a government-held position near Tripoli. Witnesses said they could hear NATO warplanes overhead.
Libyan officials are claiming to have intercepted two boats carrying a cache of weapons from Qatar, reportedly intended for rebels fighting forces loyal to Muammar Gaddafi.
On Monday, Moussa Ibrahim, a government spokesman, said 11 rebels were captured from the boats close to shore near the town of Janzour, just west of Tripoli.
Authorities of the African Union mission in Somalia [AMISOM] have confirmed the deployment of nearly 3,000 troops of UPDF into mogadishu, the capital of Somalia on Friday.
AMISOM commanding officer, Fred Ngusha from Uganda told the reporters in Mogadishu late Friday that new reinforcement troops will join estimated 9,000 troops of AMISOM currently battling al-Shabaab rebels.
A FARC roadside blitz in the north of Antioquia killed one police major, and wounded five on Wednesday. Police and military officials responded by shutting down the major roadway that connects the city of Medellin with the Caribbean coast.
The ambush occurred near the town of Yarumal, on the road that connects Medellin to the northern municipality of Caucasia and the Caribbean Coast.
Two police vehicles were targeted in separate attacks in southeastern and eastern Turkey on Tuesday.
One police officer was lightly injured when a bomb planted on a road exploded as the police vehicle he was in was passing by in Yüksekova in the southeastern province of Hakkari.
Another police vehicle was attacked in the eastern Ağrı province when unidentified assailants hurled a noise bomb at a police vehicle. No one was hurt in the attack.
Three militants killed in Tunceli
Sixteen people, including eight women and children, were killed when a Sudanese war plane bombed a village in the Nuba mountains, which for three weeks has been the scene of daily aerial attacks in a new war along the country’s volatile north-south border.
Medical staff at a nearby clinic said the dead included a three-year-old child and an eight-month-old baby. They said another 32 people were wounded in Sunday’s attack, many of them seriously.
Rebels have been engaged in fierce firefights with government forces about 80km (50 miles) south-west of Tripoli and close to their frontline.
A BBC correspondent who was with the rebels said two of them had died in the battle, according to a volunteer medic.
The rebels said government forces suffered far greater casualties, although that cannot be confirmed.
Meanwhile, Col Muammar Gaddafi has agreed to stay out of talks on ending the conflict, African leaders said.