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During the past three days, the Syrian government launched an attack against the rebels in the southern areas of the city of Aleppo. According to an activist, approximately 70,000 Syrians fled the southern parts of Aleppo due to this offensive.
This is the most recent attack to have been carried out within the past two weeks, with the Syrian government having the support of Russian air strikes.
A battalion of 300 troops from the North African country of Sudan arrived in Yemen’s port city of Aden in support of Saudi-led coalition forces battling Houthi rebels, Reuters reported Sunday.
A military source speaking with Reuters said the battalion, comprised of 300 soldiers and officers, arrived in Aden by sea Saturday to “help maintain security for the city against the Houthis and Saleh,” referring to former Yemeni president Ali Abdullah Saleh.
Russia’s National Anti-terrorism Committee says security forces have killed at least four militants during clashes in the Republic of Dagestan, APA reports quoting Press TV.
The committee said in a statement issued on Saturday that Russian security forces engaged the militants in a shootout in the Khasavyurt region of Dagestan, which borders the Chechen Republic, commonly referred to as Chechnya.
Three Turkish soldiers and 28 Kurdish militants have been killed in air strikes and clashes over the past two days in Turkey’s predominantly Kurdish southeast, the military said on Saturday, two weeks before an election.
The soldiers were killed in clashes with Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) militants in Daglica, in the province of Hakkari, where six others were wounded. The military said it had killed 17 PKK members in a ground operation, which it said was ongoing, to flush out the attackers.
“The military operation has started in rural southern Aleppo,” a pro-government source in Syria said.
Rami Abdulrahman, director of the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, said there were heavy clashes near the Jebel Azzan region, about 12 km (8 miles) south of Aleppo city, control of which is divided between government forces and rebels.
Former Tuareg rebels in northern Mali and rival pro-government armed groups said they sealed a peace deal on Thursday to end hostilities after days of talks.
Mali was hit by violence between the two sides in August and September despite a peace deal signed earlier this year.
Nine Taliban insurgents were killed and some areas of the Tagab district retaken by security personnel as a result of an operation in central Kapisa province, officials said on Thursday.
Poza Padshah, Badar Aab, Seh Darakh and Puza-i-Tatarkhel areas of Tagab were cleared of insurgents on Wednesday evening during an operation by security personnel, the provincial police chief said.