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The Islamic State group launched an offensive against government forces in eastern Syria on Saturday and captured several buildings, including a hospital, in clashes that left more than two dozen people dead on both sides.
Deir el-Zour, near the border with Iraq, is split between government forces and IS fighters. Government-held areas have been under a months-long siege by the extremists, and the U.N. has been airdropping aid to residents amid food and medicine shortages.
Six Turkish soldiers were killed on Friday in a clash with Kurdish militants in Turkish Kurdistan, the southeast of the country, while two more lost their lives when a military helicopter sent to the scene crashed, the army said.
The six troops were killed and eight others wounded in fighting with members of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) near a military base in the Cukurca district of Hakkari province.
At least 16 senior members of the al-Nusra Front armed group have been killed in an air strike in Syria, according to an organisation that monitors the war there.
The strike hit a meeting the group was holding at the Abu al-Duhur airbase in the northwest of the country on Thursday, the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.
Maoists owing allegiance to Revolutionary Communist Centre ( RCC ), splinter group of CPI (Maoist), raided the camp office of a private road construction company located in Belaganj police station area of the district shortly before midnight on Tuesday. The heavily armed Maoists numbering more than a dozen made the company staff captive at gun-point.
Forces in western Libya are preparing to advance on the city of Sirte, seized by DAESH last year, their spokesman said, pushing ahead with plans for a counter-attack after the group made territorial gains in the last week.
The fighters based in the city of Misrata would like international logistical support to help retake what has become DAESH’s most important base outside Syria and Iraq, but will not wait for it before launching the operation, they said.
The combined Russian-separatist forces attacked Ukrainian army positions in eastern Ukraine 11 times in the past day.
One soldier is dead, three others are in critical condition after stepping on a landmine. Ukraine’s military spokesperson also says there were about a dozen shellings overnight.
Officers from the armed opposition faction of the Sudan People’s Liberation Movement (SPLM) in Opposition in Northern Bahr el Ghazal state have defected and formed their own faction.
The officers previously under the overall leadership of the First Vice-President, Riek Machar, have asserted that the 2015 peace agreement signed with president Salva Kiir, has not addressed the cause of the war.