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Basque civil society groups will fully disarm the separatist group ETA by April 8, a French environmental activist with ties to the Basque community promised Friday.
The militants announced a permanent cease-fire in 2011, but the governments of Spain and France have so far refused to take part in its disarmament because ETA tied it to the future of its militants, both in and out of jail. The two countries have demanded that ETA lay down its weapons without conditions and disband.
Fighters from the Kamwina Nsapu group attacked a police convoy where six policemen who spoke the local Tshiluba were freed, but the rest were killed.
“They ambushed the policemen as they traveled from Tshikapa to Kananga”, Ambrose Muwasa, a senior security officer, told the Anadolu Agency.
Sixteen rebels were killed and 24 wounded in 24 hours of air raids by the Saudi-led coalition targeting the insurgents in Yemen.
The Houthi rebels were killed in air strikes on an airbase and arms depot in the east of the rebel-held Hodeidah province since Friday, a military official said.
Six Russian troops died in the early hours of Friday when a group of insurgents attacked their base in Chechnya, with six rebels killed in the resulting shootout, the National Guard said.
Russia’s National Guard, established last year, is a new branch of internal troops aimed at defending borders and countering extremism.
An organization that monitors extremist groups says al-Shabaab has claimed to kill 17 soldiers and wound 22 in an attack in southwestern Somalia.
The SITE Intelligence Group says in a statement Thursday that the al-Qaeda-linked al-Shabaab’s news agency posted a claim on Facebook about attacking the coastal city of Barawe.
Afghan forces have spent months trying to keep the Taliban at bay.
The Taliban have captured the crucial southern Afghan city of Sangin after a year-long battle, officials say.
Ten members of Egypt’s security forces were killed by two improvised roadside bombs during clashes with jihadist militants in central Sinai, the Egyptian army said on Thursday.
Fifteen of the Islamist fighters were also killed, while seven others were arrested in the raid on what the Egyptian army describes as “an extremely dangerous” hideout for Islamist fighters.