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Rebels and government have accused each other of instigating new violence in Unity State in violation of the ceasefire after fighting broke out in Koch County today.
Col. William Gatjiath Deng, the rebels’ military spokesman at their Pagak headquarters, issued a statement saying that government troops launched attacks on their positions this morning at 6:00 a.m. at Ngapngap, Dhorkuini and Maar payams in Koch County.
Afghan troops recaptured the centre of the strategic northern city of Kunduz on Thursday after fierce clashes with Taliban militants, three days after losing the provincial capital in a humbling defeat for Kabul and its US allies.
Residents said soldiers were conducting house-to-house searches and had removed the Taliban flag from the central square, replacing it with government colors.
Pakistan’s military said it had killed 25 militants in air strikes along its restive border with Afghanistan on Thursday as part of a major offensive to clear Taliban and Al-Qaeda strongholds that began last year.
The strikes were carried out close to the Datta Khel area of the North Waziristan tribal region, the main bastion of militants who rose up against the state in 2004.
The Turkish Army announced in a statement on Wednesday that its warplanes bombarded 24 terrorist Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) targets in Dağlıca and Yüksekova, Hakkari province, in southeast Turkey after two soldiers and a police officer were killed in separate ambushes by the PKK in the Şemdinli district of Hakkari and Kozluk, Batman province, on Tuesday evening.
According to a statement in the website of the General Staff, storage facilities and shelters of the PKK were destroyed during the bombing. One terrorist was also killed and two more surrendered themselves to Turkish armed forces, the statement said.
The Russian Air Force has begun carrying out airstrikes against Islamic State targets in Syria, the country’s Defense Ministry said.
“In accordance with the decision of the Supreme Commander of the Russian Armed Forces, Vladimir Putin, warplanes of the Russian Air Space Forces today [Wednesday] have started an aerial operation, involving pinpoint strikes on ground targets of Islamic State [IS, formerly ISIS/ISIL] terrorists in Syria,” spokesperson for the Russian Defense Ministry, Igor Konashenkov, said.