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Sri Lanka’s military said on Friday it had killed three ethnic Tamil separatist militants, the first combat since government troops crushed the rebels in a 2009 offensive.
The government, heavily criticized by Western governments and the United Nations for alleged rights abuses in 2009, said the clash showed Tamil rebels were re-emerging in Sri Lanka’s ethnic Tamil dominated north.
A battle was reported to have erupted in the Eeel Bur and Wabho towns of the Galgaduud region between the co-allied Somali National Army and African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM) troops against Al-Shabaab.
The Ethiopian troops of the AMISOM force along with the Somali soldiers were en route to Eel Bur when they were attacked by the Al-Qaeda affiliated Al-Shabaab Islamists.
Shiite rebels believed to be seeking to advance on Yemen’s capital have attacked an army post in a neighbouring city, killing three soldiers and losing two of their own, tribal sources said Thursday.
The Zaidi rebels, also known as Ansarullah or Huthis, carried out the attack in Amran, 50 kilometres (31 miles) north of Sanaa, late on Wednesday, tribal sources said.
Heavy fighting between government forces and troops from the Kachin Independence Army (KIA) displaced more than 300 local residents in eastern Kachin State on Thursday.
The fighting began Thursday morning when government troops attacked KIA Third Brigade positions close to Mai Ja Yang, the second-largest town controlled by the Kachin Independence Organization (KIO), aid workers operating in the area told The Irrawaddy. The KIO is the political wing of the KIA.
United Baloch Army (UBA) - a separatist militant outfit in Balochistan - has claimed responsibility of deadly terrorist attack in the Sabzi Mandi area of the capital city that killed at least 24 people and wounded more than 115.
Speaking to media representatives over telephone, spokesman for UBA Mureed Baloch said the rebel Baloch group has carried out the attack in retaliation to military’s ongoing operation in Balochistan’s Kalat district.
Indian government forces engaged suspected rebels in a fierce gunbattle overnight that left two rebels dead along with an Indian soldier and two police officers in the disputed Himalayan region of Kashmir, officials said Tuesday.
The fighting erupted Monday night after army soldier and police began searching for suspected militants in Zumreshi village, about 120 kilometers northwest of Srinagar, Army spokesman Lt. Col. Nitin Narahar Joshi said.
As many as 30 suspected militants who attacked trains in Balochistan, were killed by Frontier Corps (FC) during a search operation in mountainous area of Juhan, in Kalat region, about 145-kilometer outside Quetta, on Monday.
FC Balochistan spokesperson Khan Wasay said FC targeted suspected hideouts of Baloch Liberation Army (BLA) and Baloch Republican Army (BRA) in mountainous area of Kalat region.