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Leftist rebels in Colombia ambushed a group carrying regional election ballots, killing 12 members of the security forces, officials say.
The group had left an indigenous reservation in the northern Guican province when it was hit, defence minister Luis Carlos Villegas said.
Russian President Vladimir Putin has made waves of late with his military offensive in Syria, and now he has on-the-ground backing of the Cuban variety. One of the world’s leading centers for research on Cuba has released breaking details of the Castro regime’s presence in the war-torn Middle Eastern nation.
The Institute for Cuban and Cuban-American Studies (ICCAS) at the University of Miami shared via email on October 13, 2015, that General Leopoldo Cintra Frías, head of the Cuban Armed Forces, had already landed in Syria. He is, they write, “leading a group of Cuban military personnel … in support of Syria’s dictator Assad” and, in Cold War fashion, the Russian contingent.
Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos and the top FARC rebel commander pledged on Wednesday to end their 50-year war within the next six months, sealing their pact with a handshake likely to stand as a lasting image in the South American nation.
Two members of terrorist organization “Shining Path”, among them Alexander Alarcon Soto (Comrade Renan) have been captured, Peru’s Defense Minister Jakke Valakivi announced on Sunday night.
‘Renan’, arrested in the La Convencion province (Peru’s Southern Cusco region), was considered one of the organization’s high-level commanders based in the Valley formed by the Apurimac, Ene and Mantaro Rivers (VRAEM).
A commander of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, also known as FARC, was killed in a bombing raid near the town of Riosucio on Monday.
Alfredo Alarcon Machado, better known as Ramón Ruiz, who led the 18th division of the FARC in northwest Colombia, was killed along with four other rebel members. The Colombian Air Force bombed a rebel position in the Choco province.