With increased fighting in and around Damascus in recent weeks, Syrian activists have posted a video that calls on residents of the capital to prepare for what they say is a looming collapse of President Bashar Assad’s regime.

The YouTube video, called “Zero Hour, Your Final Chance,” promises an imminent battle in Damascus aimed at ousting Assad. It is filled with instructions on what to do to prepare for and survive such a battle.

The video calls for mass civil disobedience, general strikes and an intense psychological campaign to pressure army troops to abandon their posts and join the rebels.

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Puntland government forces repelled an overnight attack by al-Shabaab terrorist group near Galgala Mountains.

Around 11:00pm local time Tuesday, a group of heavily armed al-Shabaab terrorists attacked Puntland Defense Force units stationed at the frontlines near Galgala Mountains.

The terrorists attacked from different directions and Puntland forces repelled the attackers.

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A joing afghan army and of International Security Assistance Force (Isaf) unit yesterday has conducted an operation in Kunar easter afghan province that lead to the killing of taliban leader Mohammed Yar Gul and two of his men. Isaf referred it in Kabul.

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The Malian government and two rebel groups have agreed to respect the country’s “national unity”, after holding their first talks to try and end a criss that has seen the west African country effectively split in two.

Delegations from the government, the Islamist Ansar Dine and the Tuareg Azawad National Liberation Movement (known by its French acronym, MNLA) agreed “on the respect for Mali’s national unity and territorial integrity”, and “on the rejection of any form of extremism and terrorism” they said in a statement after the talks in Burkina Faso.

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Sudanese government and a splinter rebel faction of Justice and Equality Movement (JEM) will hold talks aiming to reach a peace agreement in the Qatari capital Doha next week, a Sudanese minister said.

Amin Hassan Omer, Sudan’s chief negotiator for the talks of with Darfur rebel groups and head of the Doha Document for Peace in Darfur (DDPD) implementation follow-up office said Monday the negotiations with JEM-Military Council (JEM-MC) faction will resume next week.

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Democratic Republic of Congo troops have returned to the eastern city of Goma, although rebels who occupied the city for nearly two weeks remain close by.

Reports from the area said about 600 army troops entered Goma Monday, while government officials also started to return.

​​The M23 rebel group pulled out of the city on Saturday after the brokering of a regional peace under the plan, the rebels were to withdraw 20 kilometers from the North Kivu provincial capital. But residents and officials said some of the rebels remain on the outskirts of town.

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Colombia’s armed forces claim to have killed at least 20 FARC guerrillas in the southwestern province of Nariño, reported local media Monday.

Military raids on insurgent camps in rural Nariño have left at least 20 guerrillas from FARC’s “Mariscal Sucre” column dead, according to General Leonardo Barrero, head of the army’s Joint Southwest Command.

Among the dead was a FARC commander known as “Guillermo el Pequeño”, Barrero told reporters. The general alleged that Guillermo el Pequeño was a 25-year veteran in the insurgency, responsible for “dozens” of cases of murder, extortion and drug trafficking in Nariño.

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