Speaking to a crowd in Ufurow district in the Bakool region, Mahad Omar Abdikarin, Shabaab’s governor for the Bay and Bakool regions in southwestern Somalia, recently announced that the al-Qaeda-backed group will attack Puntland, the semi-autonomous state, and the breakaway republic of Somaliland. Abdikarin is a prominent leader who has publicly flaunted Shabaab’s link with al Qaeda and has urged foreign fighters to flock to Somalia.

Having consolidated its power in the Deep South along the Kenyan border, Shabaab has launched a terror offensive in the northern self-declared state of Puntland. It is a Mexican drug gang-style campaign, with an aggressive string of targeted assassinations and low profile bombings in a Somali region that had been relatively safe and prosperous.

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More than 2.000 people of karen ethnicity have fled from their villages in eastern Myanmar, ex Burma, after a series of bloody attacks by Government troops this week. Free Burma Rangers reported it today, a group that provides humanitarian assistance to refugees in Myanmar.

According group, troops have killed many karen, fired houses, arrested villagers of villages and forced others to forced works from last January 17.

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Thousands of Indian paramilitary troops and state policemen have launched a large offensive against Maoist rebels across five states this week.

The offensive specifically targets top Maoist leaders, a senior interior ministry official told the BBC.

“The offensive has started. The federal government is trying to co-ordinate it but not take command of it,” he said.

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Defense Minister south korean Kim Tae-young has declared that South Korea is ready to launch a preventively militar attack against North on eventuality that comunist regime was ready to launch a real nuclear offensive.

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Simultaneous attack in different parts of the afghan capital, armed clashes with the police.

Suicide bombers, at least twenty, entered in action in the afghan capital Kabul by launching simultaneous several attacks and caming very close to Karzai’s presidential palace, where were registered at least two explosions and several buildings housing the ministries and government officials.
It is at least 15 dead and 62 wounded the last official report provided by the Afghan authorities.
Defence minister, news afghan agency Pajhwok writes, has said that between deads there at least ten talibans, 2 police men and 3 civilians. Wounded soldiers are 10, 18 police men and 35 civilians, including women and children.

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Countries bordering Somalia are planning to coordinate a major assault against positions held by al-Shabaab militia in Somalia, using ethnic Somali military officers being trained in their respective boundaries.

Kenya, Ethiopia and Djibouti who share the border with Somalia are all training military personnel on behalf of the Transitional Federal Government (TFG) of Somalia, which though boxed-in by militias, enjoys international recognition.

Under the United Nations laws, TFG can request another UN member to train military officers on its behalf.

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A radical Somali Islamist group fighting to overthrow the government in Somalia says it is exchanging fighters with rebels in Yemen.

An al-Shabaab spokesman told the BBC the group was sending forces to Yemen and receiving fighters in return because of its close links with the country.

Yemen has come under scrutiny after last month’s failed US airliner attack was linked to militants in the country.

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