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Yemen’s army early on Friday retook control of the coastal town of Shuqra in the southern Abyan province, to where Al-Qaida militants sheltered after the fall of their last strongholds the capital Zinjibar and the strategic city of Jaar few days ago, military sources said.
The forces launched fierce battles against the remaining militants in Shuqra amid widespread operations targeting them in Abyan and nearby provinces of Shabwa and Hadramout.
The Ogaden National Liberation Front (ONLF) declared that it has killed more than 50 Ethiopian soldiers in a recent attack on the Ethiopian army station in the region, reported VOA.
The front’s Foreign Communication Committee member and head of Ethiopia desk, Mr. Hassen Abdulahi told VOA that the Ethiopian Defence Forces have massacred 18 peaceful Ethiopian Somalis and wounded 15 others in the May 27 attack.
ONLF launched the attack as retaliation to the May 27, 2012 attack perpetrated by the Ethiopian Armed Forces at peaceful Somalis at a place called Deboch Hiriso.
Bombings and shootings targeting Shiite Muslim pilgrims in Baghdad and police across Iraq killed at least 53 people on Wednesday in apparently coordinated attacks during a major religious festival.
The attacks are the deadliest to hit Iraq since 50 people were killed in Baghdad on March 20.
The Armed forces and the popular committees cleansed Tuesday completely the towns of Zinjibar and Jaar, Khanfar palace and Rahowah area in Abyan province, an official source in the defense ministry said.
The road Aden-Abyan has been opened for citizens, the source said.
After nearly six decades of conflict, the Karenni National Progressive Party (KNPP) signed a ceasefire agreement on June 9-10 with a Burmese government delegation after talks in Karenni state capital Loikaw.
The agreement leaves the Kachin Independence Organization as the only ethnic armed group still fighting Burma’s government forces.
Aung San Myint, the general secretary no. 2 of KNPP, told The Irrawaddy on Monday that 17 of the 20 points on the agenda were agreed upon, with the outstanding three points shelved for discussion at the next meeting.
Syrian army forces killed at least 35 people in intense shelling of central Homs Sunday, activists said, as opposition forces appeared to escalate operations in other rebel hubs and around the capital Damascus.
The renewed assault on Homs and other rebel areas came as the newly elected head of the exiled opposition Syrian National Council called for decisive action from the international community to “stop the killing machine in a decisive decision under [United Nations] Chapter 7.”
Kurdish activist Abdelbasset Sayda, who was named head of the SNC in Istanbul Sunday, also called on all members of the Damascus regime to defect.
Mali’s Tuareg rebels clashed overnight with their former religious allies, witnesses said Friday, after the two groups fell out over forming a breakaway state in the northern desert region they control.
The clash involving automatic weapons near the remote regional capital Kidal was the first between the rebel National Liberation Movement of Azawad (MNLA) and Ansar Dine. Both groups are made up of Tuareg tribesmen from different various clans and the fighting has raised fears of widening chaos in the vast northern swathe of the country.