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A Kurdish official in Syrian Kurdistan’s Kobani town said Thursday that US-led airstrikes have successfully pushed back Islamic State IS insurgents from parts of the besieged Syrian town.
“The international coalition has fought ISIS more effectively during the last few days,” Nassen told AFP by telephone, using an alternative name for IS.
Shiite rebels who have been expanding their control in Yemen have clashed with al-Qaeda militants in the centre of the volatile country, leaving 12 dead, a security official said on Wednesday.
Five rebels, six suspected al-Qaeda militants and a civilian were killed late on Tuesday during the fighting in Rada in central Yemen, the security official and tribal sources said.
In Benghazi, on Wednesday, militant forces led by the retired general Khalifa Haftar have been attacking with tanks and jets the “February 17 Martyrs Brigade,” a rival to Haftar. A counter-offensive was launched by the February 17 Martyrs Brigade. More than 22 people have been killed in Benghazi in the past two days.
In a broadcast statement on Tuesday, Haftar said that he would liberate Benghazi from “terrorists.” In May, he launched an assault against other militias in Benghazi, but his forces were kicked out of the city two months later.
Yemeni rebels seized a strategic port city on Tuesday to widen their fast-expanding zone of control, hours after a new premier was named in a bid to defuse Yemen’s escalating political crisis.
And with the weakening of central authority, battered by the rebels’ seizure of Sanaa last month, southern separatists were stepping up their demands for independence.
Karen National Liberation Army soldiers stationed at an outpost near the Thai-Burmese border. (Photo: The Irrawaddy)
The commanders of units of different Karen rebel groups in southeastern Burma announced on Tuesday that they will begin military cooperation in order to deal with an increase in Burma Army operations in their areas in recent months.
Gen. Saw Lah Pwe, the head of the Democratic Karen Benevolent Army (DKBA) and Gen. Baw Kyaw Heh, deputy commander-in-chief of the Karen National Liberation Army (KNLA), who has support of KNLA brigades 2 and 5, agreed to work together. They are joined by two smaller rebel groups, the Karen National Defense Organization (KNDO) of Col. Nerdah Mya and the KNU/KNLA Peace Council of Col. Tiger.