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At least 23 anti-government armed militants were killed during clearing operations by the Afghan armed forces during the past 24 hours.
The Ministry of Defense (MoD) said the operations were jointly conducted by the Afghan National Army (ANA) forces in conjunction with the security personnel belonging to the other security institutions.
Militants of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) detonated a roadside bomb in the southeastern province of Şırnak overnight, killing three police officers and wounding four others in an armored vehicle, security sources said Jan. 18.
Reports indicate the blast occurred at around 11:30 p.m. in Şırnak’s İdil district when PKK militants detonated a roadside bomb during the passage of an armored police car.
Dozens of Saudi-led forces have been killed in a new ballistic missile attack on Yemen’s central province of Marib.
Local sources in Yemen reported that the army and the Popular Committees fired a Tochka missile on al-Bairaq military base.
Clashes between Mozambique Government forces and the opposition Mozambican National Resistance, or RENAMO, have forced an increasing number of people to flee Mozambique and seek asylum in Malawi over the last few weeks, the United Nations refugee agency cautioned today.
ISIL has kidnapped at least 400 civilians including women and children, and slaughtered 300 people in attacks on Syria’s eastern city of Deir Ezzor, a monitor and the government said on Sunday.
The extremists made significant advances in the contested region when they committed the “appalling massacre”, the government said.
Ethnic Ta’ang troops clashed with the Burma Army in Shan State’s Kutkai and Namtu townships on Jan. 12, in the midst of celebrations for Ta’ang National Revolutionary Day.
The Ta’ang National Liberation Army (TNLA) was celebrating its 53rd revolutionary day when Burma Army soldiers fired near Hopon village in Kutkai even after both sides had ceased engagement, an official from the armed group said.
Kenyan air force launched an aerial bombardment against al-Shabaab strongholds in Gedo region, hours after heavily armed militants stormed KDF base in El Adde area early on Friday.