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At least 100 fighters including eight top Al-Shabaab commanders have been killed in the latest battle in a town northeast of Badhade, Somalia, officials said on Friday.
Military spokesman Major Emmanuel Chirchir said the Kenyan helicopter gunships on Friday hit at al-Shabaab positions, which included 200 Al-Shabaab fighters, one of the largest concentrations of the al-Shabaab fighters, killing at least 100 fighters and destroying nine technicals and nine trucks used by the fighters.
At least 337 people were killed in shelling by Syrian forces in the city of Homs, activists said on Saturday. Over 1300 were wounded. Homs attack is the deadliest so far in the Syrian regime’s crackdown on protests which erupted 11 months ago.
Locals said Syrian forces started shelling the Khalidiya neighborhood at around 8 p.m. on Friday using artillery and mortars. They said at least 36 houses were completely destroyed with families inside.
Air Force planes bombed a remote area in Parang town in Sulu Thursday morning, and the military reported two wanted foreign terrorist group leaders and at least 13 other members of the local extremist group Abu Sayyaf, were killed in the attack.
Maj. Gen. Noel Coballes, commander of the Western Mindanao Command, described the attack as the biggest successful single military operation in past years.
The Shan State Army-North last week became the latest ethnic armed group to sign a ceasefire deal with the Burmese government after several rounds of negotiations over the past month.
Officials from the group met with a government delegation on Saturday in Taunggyi, the capital of Shan state. A key area of contention for many of Burma’s ethnic armies, that of territory allocation, was reportedly agreed upon during the talks, although specific details have not be made public.
Burma’s government has secured another tentative truce with ethnic rebels, this time in the country’s south east where officials from the New Mon State Party (NMSP) this morning agreed to an initial deal that could pave the way for a ceasefire.
The two sides have been in talks over the past month, but today’s decision is the strongest signal yet that a ceasefire is on the cards. Saw Hla Maung Shwe, who has acted as a broker for Naypyidaw’s Internal Peace Making Committee, told DVB that additional negotiations would take place.
At least 35 terrorists were killed in a gun-battle after a newly-established security checkpost was attacked in Kurram Agency, also leaving eight soldiers killed and scores of others injured, a military statement said on Tuesday.
Over 100 terrorists attacked the post in Jogi heights of Kurram Agency, damaging the post badly, sources told Daily Times, wishing not to be named. The attack took place in the morning.
Clashes continued on Monday between Shiite al-Houthi rebels and Sunni tribal men in the northern Yemeni provinces of Saddah and Hajjah.
Al-Houthi rebels launched an attack on Hagor tribal alliance in Hajja but their attack was repelled by the Sunni tribes men, killing at least 13 of the Iran-backed fighters, local sources told Yemenpost.
And 6 of the tribes men were also killed in the clashes, said the local sources.
“Al-Houthi rebels are trying to regain control of their posts, which the tribes men have seized in the past three days, “the local source added. “the Sunni armed men managed to capture some of al-Houthi fighters in the clashes.”