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Clashes broke out on Monday between the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) and Turkish army forces near the border, military sources reported.
The Turkish military forces and allied rebels of the Euphrates Shield Brigades launched an offensive on SDF positions west of Manbij city in northern Aleppo, using heavy artillery and mortar fire. At least five SDF fighters were killed and several others were wounded in the attack.
Ethnic armed groups launched three attacks on Burma Army and police posts in northern Shan State’s Muse Township early Sunday morning.
Ta’ang National Liberation Army (TNLA) secretary Col. Tar Bong Kyaw told The Irrawaddy on Sunday that two TNLA battalions under Brigade 5 attacked border police and Burma Army posts in Muse Economic Zone and that five police were wounded and guns were seized.
Footage obtained by The Associated Press shows the moment a children’s hospital in northern Syria was hit by an airstrike.
The exclusive CCTV video shows the interior and exterior of the pediatric facility in rebel-held eastern Aleppo, as it was hit by the bomb on Friday.
Dozens militants were reportedly killed in clashes with Egyptian army forces in the restive Sinai Peninsula on Friday, according to a local security source.
The violence broke out when militants tried to seize a hill overlooking the North Sinai’s cities of Rafah and Sheikh Zuweid, the source told Anadolu Agency.
At least 10 militants belonging to a Daesh-linked rebel group died in clashes with the Philippine army, military sources said on Friday.
Four soldiers also lost their lives in the violence which broke out in the troubled Sulu province of the Muslim south, officials said.
Three “well-known” commanders of Al-Qaeda’s Syria affiliate formerly known as Al-Nusra Front, including one who planned attacks on Aleppo, were killed in Russian strikes launched from aircraft carrier Admiral Kuznetsov, a Defense Ministry spokesman said.
“As a result of strikes delivered by Su-33 carrier-based fighter jets and air group of the Admiral Kuznetsov aircraft carrier, a large gang of the Jabhat al-Nusra group was destroyed in the province of Idlib,” Russian Defense Ministry spokesman Igor Konashenkov said Thursday.
South Sudanese armed opposition (SPLM-IO) forces Wednesday claimed the capture of three localities in southern, and northern parts of the country, following heavy fighting.
After the clashes in Juba last July and the appointment of Taban Deng Gai as First Vice President to replace SPLM-Io leader Riek Machar, the two warring parties have resumed clashes in different areas of the country.