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Two police vehicles were targeted in separate attacks in southeastern and eastern Turkey on Tuesday.
One police officer was lightly injured when a bomb planted on a road exploded as the police vehicle he was in was passing by in Yüksekova in the southeastern province of Hakkari.
Another police vehicle was attacked in the eastern Ağrı province when unidentified assailants hurled a noise bomb at a police vehicle. No one was hurt in the attack.
Three militants killed in Tunceli
Sixteen people, including eight women and children, were killed when a Sudanese war plane bombed a village in the Nuba mountains, which for three weeks has been the scene of daily aerial attacks in a new war along the country’s volatile north-south border.
Medical staff at a nearby clinic said the dead included a three-year-old child and an eight-month-old baby. They said another 32 people were wounded in Sunday’s attack, many of them seriously.
Rebels have been engaged in fierce firefights with government forces about 80km (50 miles) south-west of Tripoli and close to their frontline.
A BBC correspondent who was with the rebels said two of them had died in the battle, according to a volunteer medic.
The rebels said government forces suffered far greater casualties, although that cannot be confirmed.
Meanwhile, Col Muammar Gaddafi has agreed to stay out of talks on ending the conflict, African leaders said.
Mauritania’s army claims to have “completely destroyed” an Al-Qaeda camp in neighbouring Mali.
The two countries launched a joint offensive against Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (Aqim) on 21 June but Mauritania acted alone in Friday’s operation.
Four Mauritanian soldiers were wounded, two of them seriously, the army said Saturday, but it could give no figures for Aqim losses.
A well attended peace conference began today in the town of Widhwidh between Somaliland Government officials and members from SSC militia that has been disputing with Somaliland Government’s presence in Sool region.
The official peace treaty negotiations that President Ahmed Mohamud Siilaanyo offered to SSC militia have finally begun after months of delicate negotiation by Somaliland officials and elders from the Dhulbahante tribe that inhabits parts of Sool and Eastern Sanaag of Somaliland.
Representing the Government are Dr. Abdi Aw-Dahir (Minister of Livestock), Mohamud Hashi Abdi (Minister of Aviation), the Presidential spokesman Mr. Abdillahi Mohamed Dahir (Cukuse) and members from both House of Elders and Parliament.
A new war front was opened between Burmese Army troops and Kachin Independence Army (KIA) soldiers on Wednesday afternoon, at 4:30 p.m. local time in Puta-O district in Kachin State, Northern Burma, said KIA officials.
There is heavy fighting between Burmese troops under the Puta-O Military Strategy Command-3 and KIA soldiers of Battalion 7 under Brigade 1, said a KIA officer in Laiza headquarters in eastern Kachin State.
Syrian troops massed on the Turkish border overnight, witnesses said today, escalating tensions with Ankara as President Bashar al-Assad uses increasing military force against a popular revolt.
Hundreds of terrified refugees crossed into Turkey today to escape an army assault on the border regions, witnesses said.
Witnesses said the refugees streamed into Turkey from the Khirbet al-Jouz region in Syria to near Guvecci in Turkey.
Thousands of refugees are camped on the Syrian side of the border having escaped attacks on their villages and towns further south. More than 10,000 have crossed into Turkey over the past two weeks and are now in four official camps.