A picture taken on October 18, 2012 shows two Syrian rebels taking sniper positions at the heavily contested neighborhood of Karm al-Jabal in central Aleppo. Picture: AFP

A senior rebel commander in southern Syria was killed in fighting with government troops in the town of Tafas on Monday, sources on both sides.

Lieutenant Colonel Yasser Abbud, “leader of the Fallujah-Houran brigade… was killed fighting against regime troops in Tafas”, a spokesman for the rebel Military Council in the southern province of Daraa said.

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A military italian patrol has been attacked with shots of light weapons, mortars and rocket launchers near Shindand, in Afghanistan: the fire fight lasted almost half an hour.

No wounded between italians. Contingent command sources referred it. The attack occurred in the afternoon, at 3:30pm local hour (13 in Italy), at 5 kilometers at south of advanced operative base in Shindand, in the west of Afghanistan.

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Fourteen days given by International Conference of the Great Lakes of Kinshasa Government and to the March 23 movement rebellion to find a pacific solution in the est of Congo are largely passed without producing results. Government delegation pratically has boycotted the reunion in Kampala presenting themselves only four days on fourteen.

Joseph Kabila president prentends inconditional surrender of rebellion ignoring requests made by M23: disarmament of rwandan terrorist group FDLR (Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Rwanda), return of congolese refugees of tutsi origin (more than 150,000), reinstatement of M23 in regular army, amnesty for commanders of rebellion.

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Tunisian security forces have killed 10 Islamist militants near the border with Algeria during a three-day operation against gunmen who attacked police patrols in the remote northern region, the government said on Saturday.

Prime Minister Ali Larayedh said the militants belonged to Ansar al-Sharia, the most radical Islamist group to emerge in the North African country since the 2011 uprising ousted its autocratic leader and triggered revolts across the region.

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An al-Qaeda suicide car bomber stormed a military base in Yemen’s southern province of Abyan Friday morning killing at least 15 soldiers and injuring dozens, a provincial security official told Xinhua.

“The suicide car bombing attack was carried out simultaneously with heavy machine gunfire by the militants on the 111th Brigade’s command centre in the district of Ahwar in Abyan province,” the official told Xinhua over phone.

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Iraqi officials say a series of bombings around the country have killed nearly 40 people.

The officials said there were several explosions in Baghdad that killed at least 24 people. More than 70 reportedly were injured.

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Syrian opposition fighters assaulted a regime-controlled central prison in the northern city of Aleppo on Wednesday, an NGO said.

The fighters launched an attack on the administration block of the prison which has been under siege for months, Agence France-Presse reported the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights as saying.

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