The Islamist fighters of Hizbul Islam organization have taken over the control of Harardere town in central Somalia, just as the pirates left the town, witnesses and officials told Shabelle radio on Sunday.

Reports from the town say that more forces accompanied with many armed vehicles of the Islamist organization of Hizbul Islam had entered the town from different directions and formally took over its control.

Residents told Shabelle radio that Hizbul Islam forces seized the town peacefully as the Somali pirates vacated from it with out violence.

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Four turkish soldiers have been killed in an attack by curdish rebels against a barracks station on east of country, near town of Nazimiye, in Tunceli province.

Between dead there is chief of station. Seven other soldiers were wounded, one of the them was seriously wounded.

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A defeated candidate and former Lt. General and Deputy Chief of General Staff for Moral Orientation in the Sudan People’s Liberation Army (SPLA), has launched a deadly assault on the army’s military barrack of Doleib Hills area near the Upper Nile state’s capital, Malakal.

Southern Sudan officials on Friday confirmed that General George Athor, who recently contested as independent candidate for governorship of the region’s largest state of Jonglei, was behind the attack.

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Somaliland may launch a new military offensive into the disputed regions near the Somali-border where clan insurgent leaders have been building up armed militia in the past three months.

In a move to secure it’s borders ahead of the general President elections, Somaliland has placed it’s army in the Sool region on full preparation to carry out operations along the Somaliland-Somali border. Somaliland and Somalia’s semi-autonomous region of Puntland have in the past disputed over the Sool and Sanag regions, each laying claim over it.

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Three people died, including a police officer, and one agent is still missing after presumed narcoterrorists opened fire against a coca eradication brigade.

According to the Peruvian Police, the attack was started at 10am by some snipers hiding in the rainforest.

Some witnesses that preferred to remain anonymous told EFE news agency that they did not know if the attackers were related to drug traffic only or if they were Shining Path guerrilla remnants.

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Armed ethnic groups in rural Burma face a choice on Wednesday - join a government militia, or be outlawed and face possible attack. The standoff between the two sides has renewed fears of violence along the China-Burma border.

Burma’s military government keeps tight control over most of the country. But along the border with Thailand and China, armed ethnic groups are effectively in charge. The most powerful rebels are refusing to bow to the government’s pressure to join a state-run border defense force ahead of national elections later this year.

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Somalia’s al-Shabaab group, which has vowed to topple the UN-backed government, has seized three towns in the central Galguduud region from the pro-government Ahlu Sunna movement, witnesses said.

Al-Shabaab took control of the towns of El Der, Masagaway and Galad towns on Friday reportedly without any resistance from the rival group.

The three towns lie on the road linking Mogadishu, the capital, and eastern Somalia, which is considered to be al-Shabaab’s power base.

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