African Union peacekeepers have seized territory from Somali insurgents in the capital Mogadishu in a new offensive that is slowly closing in on the rebels’ main stronghold, a force spokesman said on Monday,

Major Paddy Ankunda said the deployment of up to 3,000 more peacekeepers, which would take the AMISOM force to 12,000 soldiers within the next two months, would help squeeze the rebels out of the heavily populated Bakara market.

‘The idea is that when we get new troops, we should be able to expand our fronts and then realise a new effort to push the insurgents out of the … Bakara market which is their main source of finances,’ said the Ugandan officer, speaking to reporters from Mogadishu by video link.

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Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) Friday claimed their first major attack to avenge Osama bin Laden`s death as 80 people were killed in a double suicide bombing on a paramilitary police training centre.

Around 140 people were wounded, 40 of them fighting for their lives, in the deadliest attack this year.

Friday`s explosions detonated in Shabqadar as newly trained paramilitary cadets, dressed in civilian clothes, were getting into buses for a 10-day leave, police said.

“This was the first revenge for Osama`s martyrdom. Wait for bigger attacks in Pakistan and Afghanistan,” Pakistani Taliban spokesman Ehsanullah Ehsan said by telephone from an undisclosed location.

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Heavy battle between Somalia’s Ahlu Sunna Waljama ASWJ and Al shabaab fighters on Thursday broke out in parts of Galguduud region in central Somalia.

The two warring sides have used both heavy artillery barrages and light weapons, local residents said.

Most of the combat rocked the villages of Dhagahley and Hayale as fighters loyal Al shabaab movement attacked military bases manned by Ahlu Sunna there.

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Libyan rebels captured the airport in the besieged city of Misrata on Wednesday, a rebel spokesman in Benghazi said.

Shamsiddin Abdulmolah of the Transitional National Council said the airport, located in the southern region of the war-torn city, fell to “revolutionaries” after opposition fighters nearby in Zlaitin were able to join their counterparts in Misrata.

The capture of the location is key for the rebels fighting the forces of Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi since it would provide important access for humanitarian aid.

Two months of fighting and the ongoing shelling of the Misrata port have prevented most aid ships from docking there, leaving the city “at the forefront” of U.N. humanitarian concerns, a top U.N. official told the Security Council this week.

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A south Sudan rebel group carried out a cattle raid in Warrap state that led to 82 deaths, women and children among them, a southern army spokesman said on Tuesday, the latest deadly violence to hit the nation in waiting.

Militiamen, under the leadership of Philip Bepan, attacked southern troops of the Sudan People’s Liberation Army (SPLA) in neighbouring Unity state on Saturday, SPLA spokesman Philip Aguer told AFP. “They were chased away and went to Warrap state, where they attacked cattle camps on May 8, at a place called Balhom Weth. They killed 34 and wounded 45 civilians, including women and children,” he said.

“On the same day they were returning with the looted cattle, they were ambushed by the cattle herders. Forty-eight of the militia were killed and 48 of their new AK-47 rifles were taken,” he added.

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Rebels in the Libyan city of Misrata say they have pushed government troops back from its outskirts.

Misrata, the only city in western Libya under rebel control, has been under siege from forces loyal to Col Muammar Gaddafi for two months.

Rebels and civilians have come under heavy fire from the pro-Gaddafi forces.

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Sources from Dagestan report that a fierce battle is taking place in the vicinity of Kizlyar district of CE Province of Dagestan since Sunday morning. Russian invaders are using helicopter gunships, armored vehicles and heavy mortars.

The fighting turned around at a few sites - near the village of Malaya Kozyrevka, Shaumian, Ukrainian farm and directly in the village of Chernyaevka.

There is no accurate data on the fatalities of the sides available yet. Invaders say that 7 Mujahideen were killed during Sunday’s fighting. Invaders give their losses as 1 element killed and 2 wounded. However, these data are unlikely to reflect actual numbers.

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