Tuesday, February 6, 2024

Burma-Myanmar: Border guards flee to Bangladesh amid clashes with rebels

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At least 95 Myanmar border guards, some of them wounded, have fled to Bangladesh over the last few days as fighting intensifies between rebel forces in Myanmar and the junta regime, officials in Bangladesh said on Monday (Feb 5).

At least two people were killed in Bangladesh on Monday after mortar shells fired from Myanmar during clashes there landed across the border.

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Friday, February 2, 2024

United States of America: US launches dozens of airstrikes in response to attack that killed troops in Jordan

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The United States military has launched dozens of airstrikes against targets in Syria and Iraq in the first retaliation for a drone attack that killed three soldiers at a remote US base in Jordan.

“This afternoon, at my direction, US military forces struck targets at facilities in Iraq and Syria that the IRGC and affiliated militia use to attack US forces,” US President Joe Biden said in a statement on Friday, referring to Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC).

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Friday, January 26, 2024

Burma-Myanmar: Arakan Army (AA) rebels claim control of port town of Pauktaw causing a serious blow to the junta

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The Arakan Army (AA), a Myanmar ethnic minority rebel group, has claimed taking control of a port town in a blow to the country’s military junta.

The armed group seized control of the town after more than two months of intense clashes with junta troops, they said late Wednesday, adding that it “completely controlled” Pauktaw, a town of 20,000 people close to a crucial deepwater port in the capital of western Rakhine state.

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Monday, January 22, 2024

Russia: Russian forces claims capture of the village of Krokhmalne in Ukraine’s Kharkiv region

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The Russian Defense Ministry announced on Sunday that its forces have taken control of the village of Krokhmalne in Ukraine’s Kharkiv region. A Ukrainian military spokesman subsequently confirmed that Kyiv’s forces had withdrawn from the area, marking a small but noteworthy advance for Russian forces.

The latest territorial gain follows a similar claim made on Thursday by the Russian Defense Ministry, stating that its forces had seized control of the settlement named Vesele in Ukraine’s eastern Donetsk region. As Russia continues to exert offensive pressure in eastern Ukrainian towns like Kupiansk, Lyman, and Avdiivka, the territorial gains have been modest, with the conflict showing signs of escalation.

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Thursday, January 18, 2024

Iran: Iran strikes Syria, Iraq and Pakistan as Middle East tensions spike

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Within 24 hours, Iran launched missile and drone strikes on targets in three countries — Iraq, Syria and Pakistan — and took the extraordinary step of announcing its responsibility for the attacks, triggering anger from its neighbors.

The developments have heightened concerns over the possibility of a wider Middle East conflict, as the Israel-Hamas war and daily Israeli bombardment of the Gaza enclave passes the 100-day mark.

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