Snipers from the Democratic Karen Benevolent Army (DKBA) and the Karen National Liberation Army (KNLA) practice together on a firing range (Photo: The Irrawaddy)

Heavy fighting between the Burma Army and an ethnic Karen rebel group broke out in Kawkareik and Hlaingbwe townships in Karen State on Friday, forcing dozens of villagers to flee their homes.

The fighting between government soldiers and the Democratic Karen Benevolent Army (DKBA) also forced the closure of a road linking Burma’s commercial capital Rangoon to the border town of Myawaddy.

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A detachment of the Popular National Army’s forces succeeded Saturday to eliminate five terrorists, in the province of Bouira and recover three guns and ammunitions, said a communiqué of the National Defence Ministry (MDN).

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Smoke rises above a residential area after recent shelling near Donetsk airport during fighting between pro-Russian separatists and Ukrainian government forces.

Pro-Russian separatists claim that shelling has killed three people in the rebel-held city of Donetsk in eastern Ukraine.

The rebel-controlled Donetsk city hall said in a statement on October 11 that “as a result of military actions in Donetsk on October 10 three civilians died and four more were injured and hospitalized.”

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As ISIS gangs are continuing to attack the Kobanê town of West Kurdistan with all their forces, and the YPG forces are bravely resisting attacks for weeks now, fighting has intensified on the eastern and southern fronts in the evening, on the 25th day of the historic resistance.

According to the reports provided by ANHA (Hawar News Agency) correspondents on the ground, fierce fighting is continuing in many areas as YPG forces are repulsing the concentrated attacks gangs have been launching with reinforcements and heavy weapons for the last three days.

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Egyptian military officials say troops have killed 16 members of an al-Qaeda-inspired militant group in the restive Sinai Peninsula.

The officials say four leading members of Ansar Beit al-Maqdis were arrested during the operations, which were still underway early Tuesday.

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Two bomb attacks in Yemen Thursday killed 47 protesters in the capital Sana’a and 19 troops at a checkpoint in the far south-east, state news agency Saba reported.

The attack in the capital targeted a protest held by the Houthi Shiite rebel movement, with Houthi officials saying several children were among the victims.

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Islamic State group jihadists were in control Thursday of more than one-third of the Syrian border town of Kobane after pushing back its Kurdish defenders, a monitoring group said.

“Despite fierce resistance from the Kurdish forces, IS advanced during the night and controls more than a third of Kobane,” Rami Abdel Rahman, director of the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, told AFP.

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