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The military and security troops have killed an al-Qaeda leader called “Abu Muslim al-Uzbeki”, an official source said Thursday.
The troops backed by aircrafts killed also six other militants of al-Qaeda and destroyed three vehicles, the source said, adding that many militants were arrested, including one surveillance operative.
The rebel Movement for the Democratic Forces of Casamance (MFDC) in southern Senegal has declared a unilateral truce to sue for dialogue with the government, APA can report Wednesday.In an interview with a local radio station in Dakar, MFDC leader Salif Sadio said he hoped the ceasefire will enhance the prospects for lasting peace after more than thirty years of separatist rebellion in the province.
Mr. Sadio said the truce followed talks with officials of the government led by President Macky Sall at the Vatican recently.
Twin car bombs claimed by jihadists on a government-held district of Syria’s third city Homs killed at least 100 people, mostly civilians, a monitoring group said Wednesday, sharply raising an earlier toll.
Tuesday’s attack was the deadliest of its kind in Homs since the Syrian conflict erupted three years ago, and came as government forces make a new attempt to overrun the handful of remaining rebel enclaves in the city centre.
The Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) announced on Tuesday the liberation of the town of Abri, SPLM-N’s base and HQ at Kualeeb ranges in Nuba Mountains (South Kordofan). The recapture of the town comes as part of the “decisive summer operations” to end insurgency in the area.
SAF spokesperson, Al Sawarmi Khalid Saad, in statement said the town of Abri derives its importance from the fact that it is a link between the Kuwaleeb Mountains and Kauda, the rebel stronghold.
Yemen army launched a ground offensive against al-Qaeda in different areas in south of country. Military sources referred it.
The operation comes ten days after a series of air raids that, according army, have killed sixty terrorists.
L’operazione arriva dieci giorni dopo una serie di raid aerei che, secondo l’esercito, hanno ucciso una sessantina di terroristi.
At least 22 people were killed in an attack on a hospital in Nanga Boguila, some 450km north of Central African Republic’s capital Bangui, according to an Anadolu Agency reporter.
Gunmen believed to be affiliated with seleka militia had attacked the hospital on Saturday afternoon, killing at least 22 people, including three Doctors Without Borders (MSF) staffers, the African peacekeeping force confirmed on Monday.
Opposition fighters in the Syrian border town of Zabadani surrendered after intense fighting with army troops, losing their last stronghold along Lebanon’s border.
The Syrian army was now in near total control of the Qalamoun region, West of Damascus, Al-Alam reported.
Dozens of opposition fighters reportedly handed themselves over to the Syrian authorities.