Monday, October 24, 2011
At least three people have been killed and several more injured after sporadic gun-battle between Somali government soldiers backed by Kenyan military and al-Shabaab erupted in the village of Busar outskirts of Elwak town in Gedo region of southern Somalia.
The combat flared up after Somali soldiers and Kenyans attacked the village to flush out Al shabaab from there.
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Sunday, October 23, 2011
Ten soldiers were killed in a FARC ambush in the northeast of Colombia Saturday; the second time within 48 hours guerrillas are able to kill that amount of soldiers.
According to media reports, the hit-and-run attack took place in Tame, a municipality in the Arauca department that has seen several rebel attacks on security forces this year.
At least two soldiers survived the ambush, but were injured and sent to nearby hospitals.
General Ernesto Maldonado, commander of the army’s eighth division, FARC rebels opened fire and launched gas bottles at the convoy after which the guerrillas fled.
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Saturday, October 22, 2011
After more than 40 years of violent struggle for independence in the traditional Basque homeland in Spain and France, the separatist group ETA declared a unilateral end to its campaign of bombings and shootings on Thursday, saying it wished to seize a “historical opportunity to reach a just and democratic resolution to an age-old political conflict.”
The group’s announcement of “the definite cessation of its military activity,” and its appeal for a “direct dialogue” with the governments in Madrid and Paris, came in the form of a written statement and an accompanying video posted online, which were sent to news organizations.
The renunciation of armed struggle went a step further than previous cease-fires the group has declared, and often broken, over the years. It was perhaps an acknowledgment that the group had been badly weakened by a crackdown by Spanish and French security forces.
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Thursday, October 20, 2011
Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi, the former Libyan strongman who fled into hiding after rebels toppled his regime two months ago, was killed Thursday as fighters battling the vestiges of his loyalist forces wrested control of his hometown of Surt, the interim government announced.
Al Jazeera television showed gruesome footage of what it said was Colonel Qaddafi, alive but wounded and bloody, being dragged around by armed men in Surt.
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Wednesday, October 19, 2011
Kurdish rebels killed 24 soldiers and policemen Wednesday in a series of pre-dawn attacks in south-eastern Turkey, inflicting the heaviest single blow on the Turkish military for years.
Turkey responded with airstrikes on suspected bases of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) in northern Iraq while Turkish troops crossed the Iraqi border in pursuit of the rebels, the NTV channel reported.
By late Wednesday, CNNTurk was reporting a total of 21 PKK members killed in those operations, either in Turkey or northern Iraq - although there was no official confirmation of that figure.
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