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Syria’s army launched an assault on the flashpoint southern city of Daraa Tuesday, state media said, after a week of deadly bombardment on the nearby countryside caused mass displacement.
Government forces have set their sights on retaking the south of the country, a strategic area that borders Jordan and the Golan Heights.
Heavy fighting broke out between Puntland army forces and Somaliand soldiers in Las Anod town.
The fighting flared up when Heavily armed forces belonging to Puntland State have launched fresh attack on police stations run by the break-away of Somaliland soldiers.
At least 16 Fulani herders have been killed in suspected ethnic clashes in central Mali, the government and local sources said on Sunday, underscoring the chronic instability blighting the West African nation ahead of elections next month.
At least two soldiers were killed and four others injured in two separate clashes between security personnel and militants in Pakistan on Saturday, local media and officials said.
The Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR), the media wing of Pakistani army, said in a statement that two soldiers and six terrorists were killed in an operation in South Waziristan area of the country’s northwest Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province.
Armed opposition group, Patriotic Ginbot7 (PG7) announced that it has unilaterally suspended all operations using firearms to show its support for the ongoing political changes undertaken by a reformist group within the ruling party, spearheaded by the new Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed.
For the past many years, the Ethiopian people have engaged in a painstaking struggle to extricate themselves from brutal repression and to transition to a democratic order.