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Since the beginning of March the Burma Army has launched 15 offensives, many with jet fighters and helicopter gunships, against the Ta’ang National Liberation Army (TNLA) in Kyaukme District, northern Shan State.
The TNLA Information Department said that the Burma Army launched four airstrikes on 6 March, four on 8 March and three on 10 March, all involved the use of fighter jets. Fighting also broke out on other days.
Russia says its jets are flying in support of the Syrian military’s offensive to recapture the ancient city of Palmyra from Islamic State (IS) militants.
Sergei Rudskoi of the Russian Military General Staff said on March 18 that Russia’s aircraft based in Syria were conducting up to 25 bombing raids daily to back up the “large-scale operation.”
Militants aligned with Islamic State have released a video which purports to show the beheading of a man the extremists claim had been working for the Philippine National Police.
The graphic video posted online on Thursday to an Islamic State channel on an encrypted messaging service was accompanied by a statement from a group calling itself “Ansaru’l Khilafah Philippines”.
Thirty insurgents in Somalia’s Al-Qaeda-aligned Shebab jihadist group were killed Wednesday in heavy clashes in the south and northeast of the country, Kenya’s armed forces and local authorities said separately.
In the first incident, the Kenya Defence Force (KDF) said it had thwarted an assault on a military camp at Afmadhow in the Lower Juba area in southern Somalia, killing 19 rebels and seizing a haul of weapons.
Kurdish YPG fighters in northern Syria
Syria’s Kurds on Thursday declared a federal region in areas under their control in the north of the conflict-riven country, but both the government and an opposition coalition rejected the move.
The announcement is likely to anger neighboring Turkey and has complicated peace talks in Geneva aimed at ending the five-year civil war.
Afghan security officials say more than two dozen people have been killed and several others injured as government forces and members of the Taliban militant group engaged in fierce clashes in the country’s central province of Uruzgan.
Aminullah Khaliqi, governor of Deh Rawood district, said on Wednesday that at least 10 members of security forces as well as 15 Taliban militants have been killed during skirmishes in the area, located 400 kilometers (248 miles) southwest of the capital, Kabul, over the past few days.
Violent clashes between soldiers loyal to Tobruk government and jihadist militants are referred also today in Benghazi, in Libya.
Military sources refer about intense artillery bombardment on army positions that caused at least 7 wounded, some of them in serious condition.