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Pro-Pakistan Hizbul Mujahideen militant outfit today claimed responsibility for the attack on a CRPF camp in Srinagar that left five security personnel and two ultras dead.
A spokesman of the Hizb called a local news agency to claim responsibility for the attack. The outfit would carry out similar attacks in future also, the Hizb spokesman said in a telephonic call to the news agency.
A Pro-government tribal militia based in the southern province of Abyan confirmed on Monday it managed to crack-down on one al-Qaeda cell in the region.
A tribal leader told the press on Sunday his men had sussed out and destroyed an important terror cell near the city of Jaar. Jaar was invaded by al-Qaeda militants back in 2011 when it remained under the group’s control for months. It took a large scale military operation to outroot Islamist militants in the province.
Falkland Islanders have overwhelmingly voted in favor of remaining part of Britain.
Of the 1,517 people who polled in a two-day voting in referendum on whether they want to be part of Britain or Argentina, all but three acknowledged British sovereignty, reports said.
North Korea is taking every initiative to show the world that it is prepared for war, particularly as South Korea and the United States enters into their Key Resolve military exercise.
The Rodong Shinmun, the voice of the North Korean Communist Party, said in its report that it North Korea will devote its armed forces of 10 million to fight the United States in its own way.
Al-Qaeda’s Iraqi front group claimed an attack on a convoy in west Iraq that killed 48 Syrian soldiers and nine Iraqi guards, in a statement posted on jihadist forums on Monday.
The soldiers had entered Iraq for medical treatment and were being transported through the western province of Anbar on their way back to Syria when the attack took place on 4 March, according to the Iraqi defence ministry.
The South Sudanese army (SPLA) repulsed two separate attacks allegedly carried out by Sudan Armed Forces (SAF) in its Upper Nile and Northern Bahr el Ghazal states, an army official said Friday.
“The SPLA forces have repulsed two attacks by the Sudanese armed forces. They carried out one in Northern Bahr el Ghazal and another in Upper Nile [states]. They were defeated,” Phillip Aguer, the SPLA spokesperson said.
Falkland Islanders will go to the polls on Sunday to vote on whether they want to remain British amid increasing tensions with Argentina over the sovereignty of the territory.
The tiny community is expected to overwhelmingly back retaining its status as an Overseas Territory of the United Kingdom.