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The Yemeni army and popular committees stormed the military post of al-Shurfa in the bordering city of Najran, destroying many vehicles, as the Saudi soldiers escaped.
The Yemeni forces remained in the post for a period of time and seized the weapons and equipment left by the Saudi soldiers.
Syrian rebels said they had captured a major Syrian army base in the south of the country on Tuesday, a defeat that would add to the pressure on President Bashar al-Assad after other recent setbacks.
Within three days of an ambush of an Indian Army convoy in Manipur leaving 18 soldiers dead, suspected militants from Naga outfit NSCN-K on Sunday attacked a camp of the paramilitary Assam Rifles in Arunachal Pradesh. Officials said there was no casualty in the attack.
Around 30 heavily armed militants started firing indiscriminately at the 1 Assam Rifles camp at Lazu in Tirap district in the early hours of Sunday, prompting retaliatory firing by the paramilitary personnel, an Assam Rifles spokesman said.
At least 19 presumed militants, between them five commanders, have been killed yesterday evening during clashes with security forces along pak-afghan border.
Reports it army press office (Ispr).
Somali moderate Islamist rebels have taken over the control of a town located in the Central region of the country on Sunday morning, Horseed Media reports.
Dhusamareb, the capital of Galgadud region and North of Mogadishu, was under the control of forces loyal to the Federal government of Somalia.
Officials say “intense fighting” is under way in northeast Afghanistan as government forces attempt to retake a district overrun by Taliban militants.
Shah Waliullah Adeeb, the acting governor of Badakhshan Province, said on June 7 that more than 10 militants and four security personnel were killed in clashes around Badakhshan’s Yamgan district.
US attacks 21 ISIS targets in Iraq, Syria over 24 hours as Shiite militias, army soldiers stop ISIS in fierce battle east of Ramadi.
Government forces and Shiite militiamen repelled two Islamic State group attacks in Anbar province on Saturday, officials said. In one attack, they used anti-tank missiles to stop four would-be suicide car bombers, officials said, as violence continues to roil the war-torn country.