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Heavy gun battle between government troops and Jubaland forces, has left at least nine people, including, soldiers dead and wounded several others outside Kismayo, officials said
The fighting that lasted for 1 hour has erupted when number of Jubaland soldiers launched heavy attack on positions manned by government troops in Gobweyn area.
The Islamic State (IS) militants launched attacks on Sidra oil-port in Libya, killing one army soldier and injuring two, a military source said.
“The army guarding the gate engaged with the militants and killed four, among them some African nationals, before the militants attempted to detonate a truck bomb,” Xinhua quoted Ali al-Hasi, spokesman for the oil facilities guards, as saying on Friday.
Burmese Army’s 77th Light Infantry Division troops overrun KIA’s 34th Battalion headquarters in Manton Township in northern Shan State on Sept 30 at around 3 pm, reported a KIA frontline source.
Burmese Army troops pounded KIA’s position with several artillery rounds beginning 12:50 pm.
Rebels and government have accused each other of instigating new violence in Unity State in violation of the ceasefire after fighting broke out in Koch County today.
Col. William Gatjiath Deng, the rebels’ military spokesman at their Pagak headquarters, issued a statement saying that government troops launched attacks on their positions this morning at 6:00 a.m. at Ngapngap, Dhorkuini and Maar payams in Koch County.
Afghan troops recaptured the centre of the strategic northern city of Kunduz on Thursday after fierce clashes with Taliban militants, three days after losing the provincial capital in a humbling defeat for Kabul and its US allies.
Residents said soldiers were conducting house-to-house searches and had removed the Taliban flag from the central square, replacing it with government colors.
Pakistan’s military said it had killed 25 militants in air strikes along its restive border with Afghanistan on Thursday as part of a major offensive to clear Taliban and Al-Qaeda strongholds that began last year.
The strikes were carried out close to the Datta Khel area of the North Waziristan tribal region, the main bastion of militants who rose up against the state in 2004.
The Turkish Army announced in a statement on Wednesday that its warplanes bombarded 24 terrorist Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) targets in Dağlıca and Yüksekova, Hakkari province, in southeast Turkey after two soldiers and a police officer were killed in separate ambushes by the PKK in the Şemdinli district of Hakkari and Kozluk, Batman province, on Tuesday evening.
According to a statement in the website of the General Staff, storage facilities and shelters of the PKK were destroyed during the bombing. One terrorist was also killed and two more surrendered themselves to Turkish armed forces, the statement said.