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There have been at least 59 clashes between the Burma Army and the Karen National Liberation Army—the armed wing of the Karen National Union (KNU)—in the KNU’s fifth brigade territory during the first three months of 2020, Karen sources reported.
According to a statement released by the KNU on March 31, the Burma Army and the KNU’s Brigade 5 clashed dozens of times in Mutraw District—referred to as Hpapun in Burmese—with both sides suffering casualties.
The Syrian air defences responded to an Israeli missile strike in the central province of Homs, state TV reported.
The Israeli warplanes fired missiles from inside the Lebanese airspace, said the report on Tuesday, adding that a number of missiles were intercepted, Xinhua news agency reported.
The Saudi-UAE coalition fighting Houthi rebels in Yemen carried out more than a dozen air strikes on the capital Sanaa, the first such attacks on the city in months.
According to Houthi-run Al Masirah TV, the coalition launched 19 air raids on Monday. No casualties were reported so far.
A commander in the so-called Libyan National Army (LNA) loyal to General Khalifa Haftar was killed yesterday along with one of his aides in clashes with the Tripoli-based Government of National Accord (GNA) forces in Al-Washka, Sputnik has reported.
They were named by a military source as LNA commander Salem Driaq and Gaddafi Al-Sadai. Driaq was the commander of the Sirte operations room.
At least 100 terrorists were killed in counter-terror operations against Boko Haram, officials said late Friday.
Military Training and Operations Chief Enobong Okon Udoh said the terrorists were killed in the offensive against Boko Haram in the province of Borno.
Clashes occurred between the Afghan National Police and the Taliban radical group overnight Saturday in the Spin Buldak district of the southern Kandahar province of Afghanistan near the border with Pakistan, Sputnik has learned from local sources.
Boko Haram jihadists have killed nearly 100 Chadian soldiers in a seven-hour attack on an island army base, in their deadliest assault yet on the country’s armed forces.
President Idriss Deby told Chad television he travelled to the scene of the attack on Tuesday to pay tribute to the 92 dead soldiers, saying it was the first time so many troops had been lost.