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Three italian soldiers wounded in a firefight occurred in Afghanistan, at south of Bala Murghab, once of the areas more dangerous of the region.
Soldiers where involved in an activity to support afghan forces.
Of the three injured, one is serious and has reported injuries at lung and one shoulder; the conditions of the other are defined serious, about injuries at groin, while third is not serious.
At least 100 islamic extremist militants have been killed in attacks and bombings in tribal region of Orakzai, in Pakistan.
By some days aviation has intensified bombings against talibans bases in different sides of region belonging to the tribal territories in federal administration (Fata) bordering with Afghanistan.
Somalia’s al-Shabaab Islamist group yesterday confirmed it had carried out the two bomb blasts that killed at least 74 people in Kampala and threatened more attacks if the country kept its peacekeeping troops in Somalia. “Al-Shabaab was behind the two bomb blast in Uganda,” Sheikh Ali Mohamud Rage, al-Shabaab’s spokesman, told reporters in the Somali capital Mogadishu.
“We thank the mujahideens that carried out the attack. We are sending a message to Uganda and Burundi, if they do not take out their AMISOM troops from Somalia, blasts will continue and it will happen in Bujumbura too.”
The claim reaffirms the earlier suspicion by the Inspector General of Police Maj. Gen. Kale Kayihura that the militant group was behind the deadly attacks.
At least 3 security forces of Puntland administration have been killed and 4 others wounded after explosion targeted to the government soldiers in the centre of port and businesses town of Bosaso of Bari region in Puntlnad, witnesses told Shabelle radio on Sunday.
Reports say that the blast was a land mine explosion buried under the high way of the town and occurred overnight as the security forces of the semi-autonomous region of Puntland had been patrolling there, killing three, and wounding 4 others.
At least 14 afghan policemen have been killed in three distincts attacks made by talibans in north Afghanistan.
Nine policemen killed in district of Emam Saheb, province of Kunduz in an attack.
In district of Qaleh Zaal an improvised explosive device exploded while where was passing the car on which was head of local police, killing hime and his driver.
In province of Badahhshan, 5 policemen are killed when their vehicle jumped on a bomb.
Reports reaching us from the battlefield in Ogaden, where the unflinching Ogaden National Liberation Front [ONLF] forces are fighting to rid the Ogaden of colonial Ethiopian army, say that at least 9 battles occurred there last few week alone.
Senior ONLF military officers told Ogaden Online reporters that fighting has mostly been taking place at colonial army bases in the Ogaden. They added that the era when battles were fought in villages and rural areas was over.
Ogaden Online reporters operating in the Ogaden have reported that Ethiopian forces have started digging huge trenches around major towns for fear of attacks by ONLF fighters.
The bandh by Maoists turned violent in two states on Thursday when the rebels attacked the house of a Congress leader in Chhattisgarh’s Dantewada district killing two of his relatives and blew up a railway station in Jharkand leaving one person dead.
A road bridge was also blown up and a four-wheeler used by the CISF personnel of the Steel Authority of India Limited (SAIL) torched by the Maoists in extremist-hit West Singhbhum district in Jharkand.
A three-feet rail section under Dhanbad Rail Division was also blasted, holding up several trains including a Rajdhani train.