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Armed separatist rebels in Indonesia’s easternmost Papua region claimed responsibility for an attack on a civilian aircraft, alleging they killed an American pilot and set the plane on fire after it landed in a conflict-hit area.
The claim was made by the West Papua National Liberation Army (TPNPB), a separatist group involved in a long-running insurgency against the Indonesian government.
Israel deployed a small contingent of forces to Somaliland earlier this year, a senior Somali government official told Middle East Eye.
After becoming the first country to recognise the breakaway state of Somaliland as an independent nation in December, Israel appointed Michael Lotem as its first ambassador to Hargeisa in April.
Ukraine launched a new wave of drone attacks on Russia early Thursday, with the majority targeting Moscow. It amounted to one of the largest attacks on the Russian capital since the Kremlin ordered the invasion of Ukraine more than four years ago.
Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin said Russian air defenses destroyed nearly 200 Ukrainian drones on approach to the capital — but acknowledged several had managed to hit the city’s main oil refinery for the second time this week.
At least seven people were killed and several others when the Israeli army launched airstrikes on the southern suburbs of the Lebanese capital Beirut and areas in southern Lebanon on Sunday despite an ongoing ceasefire, Lebanese media said.
The state news agency NNA said that three people were killed and 15 others injured in strikes targeting the Lebanese capital.
Forced military conscription and a shortage of weapons are directly affecting the dynamics of the civil war in Burma.
In many areas, rebels are facing increasing pressure, while military forces are strengthening their presence and advancing into strategic territories.