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Heavy fighting erupted in Mudug region between Puntland Security forces (PSF) and al-Shabaab militants group on Wednesday, Garowe Online reports.
The clashes sparked when PSF soldiers-U.S. Pentagon backed counter terrorism taskforce- attacked al-Shabaab fighters in Buraad area located 15 km east of Galkayo city, according to military sources.
“Fortunately, after two years of negotiations between Afghanistan’s High Peace Council and the Hezb-e Islami, the peace negotiations have been successfully completed, and an agreement between both sides has been finalized”, the Afghan High Peace Council, the presidentially appointed body tasked with pursuing a peace settlement with militant groups, said in a statement.
The deal signed on Thursday with warlord Gulbuddin Hekmatyar is the country’s first peace agreement since the Taliban launched their insurgency in 2001, after being driven from power in the wake of the 9/11 attacks on the United States.
Government soldiers made advances in the center of the besieged city of Aleppo on Tuesday, as heavy aerial bombardments by Syria and its ally Russia extended into a fifth day, state-run media organizations said.
Syrian state television reported that troops loyal to the government of President Bashar al-Assad had captured the rebel-held neighborhood of Farafra, near the city’s medieval citadel.
South Sudan’s oil-rich Unity state saw heaving fighting this weekend when clashes between government troops (SPLA) and the armed opposition (SPLA-IO) broke out in Rubkotna county.
The Sudan Tribune confirmed the heavy gunshots and bombardments with a group of civilians who fled the area to the United Nations camp in Bentiu.
At least 10 Turkish soldiers were killed and seven others were wounded on Sept. 26 in two separate attacks by the militants of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) in the country’s southeast.
Six soldiers were killed in an atack on a checkpoint in Şırnak, while four others were killed in a roadside bomb attack in Mardin’s Derik district.
Southwest state forces have carried out attacks in Lidale district in Bay region, targeting al-Shabaab base in southwestern region of Somalia on Saturday, Garowe Online reports.
At least 10 people, including seven al-Shabaab militants and three Somali soldiers were killed on Saturday, after state forces raided al-Shabaab base in Lidale district, General Ibraahim Yarow, a Senior military advisor to the Somali National Army confirmed the reports to local media.
According to Afghanistan Defense Ministry press office, in the last 24 hours Afghan security forces led mopping-up operations in some parts of the country killed 99 insurgents including 41 ISIS terrorists and 43 Others wounded and detained 2 others, BNA news reports.
According to another report, 4 national army soldiers were also martyred during the clashes with armed insurgents.