Burmese army soldiers entered Namlim Pa, a village of about 2300 residents that include IDPs and school children, by firing gunshots on Nov 16 at about 4:30 pm, reported a local source. The soldiers then surrounded Namlim Pa IDP Camp and a school located inside the village. About 700 school children and 34 teachers are among the residents being surrounded by Burmese army soldiers.

Namlim Pa village originally had a total population of about 700. About 1000 IDPs from surrounding villages in Mansi Township arrived in Namlim Pa after renewed battles began in KIA’s 12th and 27th Battalion areas in mid-October. The latest round of military clashes led to the rise in the number of IDP population to about 1500.

[Read more…]

War continues between rival jihadists groups in Syrian regions subtracted by control of regular forces.

Six rebels of Al Hijra Ila Allah group have been executed by Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) qaedists militiamen in Latakia province.

[Read more…]

The afghan security forces in the last 24 hours conducted several cleansing operations in the provinces of the country killed 37 armed insurgents the other day.

[Read more…]

The Syrian army continues to gain more ground in its fight against foreign-backed militants in several areas across the country.

On Thursday, the Syrian army regained full control of Jabal Maheen al-Kabir area in the eastern countryside of Homs, following clashes with foreign-backed militants.

[Read more…]

Syrian troops advanced on the Islamist-held northern village of Tal Hassel today, prompting jihadist rebels in nearby Aleppo to call for mass mobilisation to counter the offensive.

Fighting raged at Tal Hassel, some 12 kilometres (seven miles) from Aleppo, the country’s pre-war commercial hub, where the regime and rebels have been locked in a bloody standoff for more than a year. In clashes elsewhere in the country, nine people were killed by shelling in the central city of Homs, the official SANA news agency reported.

[Read more…]

About a week after the government offered 17 ethnic armed groups a nationwide ceasefire proposal, one group—the ethnic Palaung—has stated that they reject the conditions set out in the draft agreement.

In early November, ethnic groups convened in Laiza to develop a joint position in their ceasefire negotiations with Naypyidaw. On Nov. 5, at a high-profile meeting in the Kachin capital Myitkyina, Minister Aung Min’s peace negotiations team met with Burma’s major rebel groups and handed them a draft ceasefire agreement.

[Read more…]

The Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) is readying to launch a massive military campaign in the coming days against rebel positions, a senior official said on Monday.

Sudanese presidential assistant Nafie Ali Nafie, who was attending the inauguration ceremony of an economic housing project in Nahr al-Neel state on Monday, renewed the government’s call for rebels to sit down at the negotiating table and “repent” once and for all.

[Read more…]