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Four Congolese soldiers and 12 rebels have been killed in three days of clashes in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, the military said on Tuesday.
The violence, which began on Sunday, pitted the army against the Congo-based Rwandan FDLR militia and two groups of Mai-Mai rebels, army spokesman Captain Guillaume Djike told AFP.
The Sudanese army Monday recaptured key positions in the areas held by the Sudan People’s Liberation Movement - North (SPLM-N) in South Kordofan state, a militarily official said on Sunday.
SPLM-N spokesperson, Arno Lodi Sunday said that the government troops and allied militias launched last Sunday a simultaneous attack on six of its positions in Um Dorain, Buram, Heiban, and Dalami countries.
Two Azerbaijani soldiers have been killed on the frontier with Armenia, the Azerbaijani Defense Ministry said in a statement on Monday.
The soldiers and an unspecified number of Armenian military personnel were killed as the Armenians tried to cross the border into Azerbaijan’s Qazax region on Sunday, the ministry said.
Fighting between Kachin Independence Army (KIA) troops and those from a government backed People’s Militia Force broke out in Kachin state’s Kampaiti last Tuesday March 22nd. The clash appears to have been triggered by the Kachin Independence Army (KIA) Third Regiment’s efforts to eradicate opium in the area.
A Pakistan Taliban splinter group claimed responsibility for the deadly suicide attack in Lahore that killed over 60 people and injured over 300 on Sunday.
“We claim responsibility for the attack on the Christians as they were celebrating their religious festival,” spokesman for the Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan, Jamaat ul Ahrar, Eshansullah Ehsan said.
Turkish fighter jets have heavily pounded the Islamic State (IS) position near Mosul, in the north of Iraq.
In response to a recent IS offensive in northern Iraq against the Turkish troops, Turkish warplanes carried out airstrikes against four IS positions in the area on Saturday.
At least 59 people were killed and more than 200 injured when a suicide bomb ripped through the parking space of a crowded park in Lahore where Christians were celebrating Easter Sunday.
Dozens of ambulances were seen racing to the park, situated near the centre of the city with many women and children among the dead and wounded.