Russian-backed militants violate truce 21 times.
One Ukrainian soldier was killed in the past 24 hours, and five others were wounded, according to Ukraine’s presidential military spokesman Andriy Lysenko.
Thursday, 5 November, 2015
Turkey: Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) rebels end cease-fire
Kurdish rebels in Turkey declared an end to a unilateral cease-fire on Thursday, a day after President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, fresh from a sweeping election victory, pledged to eradicate the militants.
In halting a month-long bid to restore a truce, the Kurdistan Workers’ Party, or PKK, also urged an escalation in the fight for Kurdish autonomy, said a statement published by the Firat news agency.
Sunday, 18 October, 2015
Russia: Russian security forces kill 4 militants in Dagestan
Russia’s National Anti-terrorism Committee says security forces have killed at least four militants during clashes in the Republic of Dagestan, APA reports quoting Press TV.
The committee said in a statement issued on Saturday that Russian security forces engaged the militants in a shootout in the Khasavyurt region of Dagestan, which borders the Chechen Republic, commonly referred to as Chechnya.
Saturday, 17 October, 2015
Turkey: 28 Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) militants and 3 Turkish soldiers killed
Three Turkish soldiers and 28 Kurdish militants have been killed in air strikes and clashes over the past two days in Turkey’s predominantly Kurdish southeast, the military said on Saturday, two weeks before an election.
The soldiers were killed in clashes with Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) militants in Daglica, in the province of Hakkari, where six others were wounded. The military said it had killed 17 PKK members in a ground operation, which it said was ongoing, to flush out the attackers.
Tuesday, 13 October, 2015
Cuba: Cuban troops join the Russian offensive in Syria
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.