Armed men attacked a Malian army camp in the Gao region in the north, killing at least 29 soldiers, the army said Thursday.
The attack on the post in Tarkint also wounded at least five people, said an army spokesman, Lt. Col. Diarran Kone.
Thursday, 19 March, 2020
Afghanistan: Taliban and Afghan forces clash in Balkh province
At least two Afghan security forces and dozens of Taliban fighters were killed in deadly clashes in the northern Balkh province, an official confirmed on Wednesday.
Ajmal Fayez, a spokesman for police headquarters in Balkh, told Anadolu Agency the incident late Tuesday in the province’s Chahar Bolak district also resulted in closure of the main Balk-Jawzjan highway. He said two security forces personnel were killed in an insurgent attack on a checkpoint.
Wednesday, 18 March, 2020
Thailand: 1 soldier killed and 2 others wounded in clashes with militants in south
One Thai soldier was killed and two others injured in clashes between a government patrol and a militant rebel group in Thailand’s southern province of Pattani on Wednesday.
The patrol was part of a combined government force operating in the area to force insurgents still in hiding to surrender, said the Thai Army’s Internal Security Operation Command (ISOC) Region 4.
Tuesday, 17 March, 2020
Libya: Fierce clashes breakout across north as Libyan National Army (LNA) forces attempt to advance
Violent clashes were reported between forces loyal to the Government of National Accord (GNA) and the Libyan National Army (LNA) forces near Tripoli’s international airport, on Sunday.
Footage shows soldiers backing the GNA forces firing with a tank as well as firearms, while clashes are ongoing.
Monday, 16 March, 2020
Indonesia: 4 West Papua Liberation Army (WPLA) rebels killed in clashes with security forces in Papua region
Four Papuan independence fighters were killed in an ongoing clash between security forces and a rebel group near the world’s largest gold mine in Indonesia’s easternmost Papua region, police and rebels said Monday.
The clashes, which began Feb. 29 near the Grasberg copper and gold mine in Papua province, earlier killed two security personnel and injured three others.
Sunday, 15 March, 2020
Burma-Myanmar: 20 villages abandoned as Arakan Army (AA) rebels attack burmese army outpost
The monthlong fighting between Myanmar’s military and Arakan Army (AA) to the east of the Kaladan River on the border of Rakhine State’s Kyauktaw and Chin State’s Paletwa has forced nearly 20 villages to be abandoned.
“Our village was reduced to ashes. All the houses were burned down days ago and artillery shells landed on the village monastery yesterday,” the village administrator of Mont Than Pyin, U Kyaw Sein, told The Irrawaddy on Thursday.
Saturday, 14 March, 2020
Yemen: 11 killed in clashes between Houthi rebels and yemeni army in Taiz
Six government forces and five Houthi rebels were killed in clashes in the southwestern Taiz province, the Yemeni military said on Saturday.
A military statement said a senior rebel commander was among those killed in the clashes, without giving any further details.