Insurgent attacks in several parts of Afghanistan have killed 10 police officers over 24 hours, officials said on Wednesday.
Warming weather in the summer usually brings an uptick in insurgent activity, but the surge this year is more than expected.
Wednesday, 27 June, 2012
Mali: Islamists of Movement for Unity and Jihad in West Africa (MUJWA) seize Gao town from National Movement for the Liberation of the Azawad (MNLA) tuareg rebels
Rebel factions in control of northern Mali traded heavy arms fire in the city of Gao on Wednesday, threatening an uneasy power-sharing deal between Tuareg separatists and al-Qaeda-linked militants.
The clashes came a day after at least two people were killed in the town when fighters from the separatist MNLA group broke up a protest march by local youths. Islamist group MUJWA, a splinter group of the area’s al-Qaeda branch, had sought to intervene between the protesters and the separatists.
Tuesday, 26 June, 2012
Syria: Free Syrian Army (FSA) launched an attack on a Republican Guard military base in Damascus
Fighters for the insurgent Free Syrian Army launched what they described as an exploratory attack on a military base housing Syria’s elite Republican Guard in Damascus late Monday, and the ferocious reaction on Tuesday convinced them their foray had been something of a success.
The Syrian armed forces responded with heavy shelling of the suburb of Qudssaya, an area with strong opposition presence about two and a half miles northwest of the Presidential Palace, and on Barzeh in northern Damascus, about three miles northeast. Activists reported that as many as 33 residents were killed.
Monday, 25 June, 2012
Syria: Second day of bombardment on Deir ez-Zor, 22 dead
At least twenty persons are dead in the second day of heavy bombing by governmental troops on Deir ez-Zor, east Syria.
The report comes from opposition activists, according to whom the governmental troops have fallen back from the residential areas and are bombing from the suburbs.
Pakistan: 10 soldiers killed in cross-border attack in Dir district
Afghan terrorists on Sunday attacked a military convoy in Upper Dir, resulting in the killing of at least 21 people, including terrorists and soldiers.
According to reports, Afghan militants attacked a military convoy in Upper Dir, a district of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, killing at least 10 military personnel, while several others were left missing. The sources further said that the security forces retaliated to attack and killed 11 terrorists.
Sunday, 24 June, 2012
Darfur: Group loyal to Sudan Liberation Army-Minni Minnawi (SLA-MM) defeated searching to enter in Jebel Mara
Southern Darfur state authorities have defeated a group loyal to SLM of Mani Arko Minnawi’s faction infiltrated into the state from Mazeed and Kariri areas in northern Darfur amid inter clash erupted between the movement’s loyalists.
Southern Darfur deputy governor Abdel karim Musa told (smc) that regular forces chased the group which had been destined to eastern part of Jebel Mara.
Turkey: New air strikes on Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) rebels in Iraq
Turkey’s military has confirmed further air strikes against Kurdish rebel bases in northern Iraq.
It said nine attacks were carried out by Turkish aircraft on hideouts of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), mostly in the Qandil region.
Last Wednesday the military said it had carried out similar strikes, a day after eight Turkish soldiers and 26 PKK rebels were killed in clashes.