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Wednesday, 31 August, 2016

Tunisia: Clashes between terrorists of Okba Ibn Nafaa brigade and army in Kasserine

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A massive anti-terrorism operation has concluded in the Hay el Karma neighbourhood in Kasserine, where in recent days Tunisian armed forces have been fighting jihadists who on Monday ambushed a military patrol on Mt. Sammama, killing three soldiers.

Official sources confirmed shootings between jihadists and military soldiers with two jihadists and a 16-year-old civilian killed.

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Syria: Abu Muhammad al-Adnani Islamic State spokesman and strategist killed by U.S. airstrike

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The public face of Islamic State’s worldwide propaganda campaign and the commander responsible for the organization’s attacks against Europe and elsewhere has been killed, the terror group announced Tuesday.

Abu Muhammad al-Adnani, a founding members of the brutal jihadi movement, was killed in northern Syria’s Aleppo province, according to a tweet sent out by the Amaq Agency, the group’s online propaganda operation.

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Tuesday, 30 August, 2016

Burma-Myanmar: Clashes between army and Shan State Army-North (SSA-N) rebels continue days before peace conference

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Shan State Army-North troops on the front line in Shan State. (Photo: Kyaw Kha / The Irrawaddy)

The Burma Army and the Shan State Progress Party/Shan State Army-North (SSPP/SSA-N) clashed in northern Shan State on Sunday evening, just days before the start of the Union Peace Conference.

Fighting broke out as the Burma Army’s Light Infantry Battalions No. 33 and 147 marched toward the SSA-N’s Loilem outpost in Mongyang Township’s Tangyan village tract, but there were no casualties, said Major Sai Hsu, an SSPP/SSA-N spokesperson.

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Ukraine: Fresh clashes erupt in Donbass, 2 Ukrainian soldiers killed

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Fresh clashes have emerged in Donbass in Ukraine’s east resulting in the death of two Ukrainian soldiers.

The Ukrainian military have claimed that pro-Russia paramilitaries violated the peace agreement on Sunday by shelling Ukrainian-held areas.

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Monday, 29 August, 2016

Yemen: Islamic State suicide bomber kills 60 people in attack on military base in Aden

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A suicide car bomb attack on an army training camp in Yemen’s second city of Aden killed at least 60 people on Monday.

The Islamic State has claimed responsibility for the attack.

A security official told AFP that the attacker drove his vehicle into a gathering of new recruits at the camp in northern Aden.

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