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Two groups claimed responsibility for a rocket attacks on the northeastern Lebanese city of Hermel Tuesday, citing Hezbollah’s military intervention in neighboring Syria.
“The Nusra Front in Lebanon and the Marwan Hadid Brigades announce the targeting of strongholds of Iran’s party [Hezbollah] with 10 Grad-type rockets in the Hermel region,” they said in statement posted in a Twitter link.
South Sudanese President Salva Kiir declared a curfew in Juba, accusing soldiers allied with the former vice president of attempting a coup overnight in the capital.
In a press conference in the capital Monday, Kiir said a group of soldiers allied with former Vice President Riek Machar launched an attack late Sunday at army headquarters.
One person was killed and four others injured on Sunday by suspected anti-talk NDFB (Songbijit) insurgents who exploded two grenades and fired indiscriminately at Molandubi Market in Assam’s Kokrajhar district, police said.
Al-Nusra jihadists and salafi militants this night sized syrian christian village of Kanaye forcing population to obey the sharia and women to wear islamic veil, subject to immediate execution.
UN peacekeeping troops in Democratic Republic of Congo have launched an offensive against Rwandan ethnic Hutu rebels operating in the eastern part of the country, the UN command said Wednesday.
“MONUSCO’s intervention brigade launched operations against the FDLR (Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Rwanda) yesterday, Tuesday, in Kalembe, in the Masisi region,” the mission said on Twitter.
The Congolese government signed a peace deal on Thursday with the M23 rebels it had been fighting until they laid down their arms last month, ending weeks of wrangling over the terms of an agreement.
The deal apparently concludes the most serious rebellion in Congo in a decade but analysts say the region remains fragile, not least because the agreement does not address the status of other armed groups.
Joseph Kony, LRA’s chief, is wanted by the International Criminal Court for crimes against humanity [Getty Images]
Uganda troops have captured 19 Lord’s Resistance Army rebels in Central African Republic (CAR), the African Union said, a sizeable victory in the hunt for the elusive rebel group.
The Ugandan army is leading a US-backed African Union force tasked with capturing the LRA’s leaders, several of whom are wanted for war crimes by the International Criminal Court in The Hague.
