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Three soldiers from Burma’s military died on Monday following bloody clashes with the Kachin Independence Army (KIA) in the Mongkoe (or Munggu) area of northern Shan state, according to local residents.
Eyewitnesses told the Kachin News Group they saw the bodies of three soldiers, identified as members of Infantry Battalion No. 69, being carried away by their comrades near Nawng Heng, the site of heavy fighting all day Monday.
The London-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights says rebels have gained control of Maaret al-Numan, a town which controls a crucial communication line between Aleppo and Damascus.
According to its director, Maaret al-Numan, “the Syrian army has abandoned all checkpoints outside Maaret al-Numan, with the sole exception of the one controlling access to the town.”
Eleven people have been killed in a series of attacks by militants in southern Thailand.
Three paramilitary rangers are among the dead.
They were ambushed while travelling in the back of a ute in Pattani province.
Four rubber tappers, reportedly Buddhists, were also killed in two separate attacks in Pattani.
At least one woman was killed and another individual wounded when mortar shells hit Kadugli, the capital of South Kordofan state eye witnesses told Sudan Tribune.
According to reports received from Kadugli, four shells fell in different parts of the city: one in Kadugli market, the second nearby the headquarters of Popular Defence Forces, the third fell between buildings of the state radio and a school and the fourth landed near the branch of Bank of Sudan.
Nigerian soldiers have killed about 30 suspected members of Boko Haram, including a close associate of the group’s leader, during a gun battle in northeastern Yobe state, an army spokesman says.
“About 30 suspected Boko Haram terrorists were killed in the battle which lasted several hours,” Lieutenant Eli Lazarus, an army spokesman, said in a statement on Sunday.
President Benigno Aquino 3rd announced on Sunday that a deal had been reached with Muslim separatist rebels to end a decades-long insurgency that has left more than 150,000 people dead.
“This framework agreement paves the way for a final and enduring peace in Mindanao,” Aquino said, referring to the southern third of the Philippines that the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) regards as its ancestral homeland.
A fierce fighting between somali forces and al-Shabaab fighters reported flared up again in the south-western volatile region of Gedo, leaving scores of people dead, officials said.
Jamal Hassan Farah, the Somali army chief in Garbaharey town, the provincial capital of Gedo, told Shabelle Media that the combat erupted overnight when al-Shabaab agents armed with rocket-propelled launchers and machine-guns attacked army bases in the city.