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The Al Qathafi forces have for the first time been given a taste of NATO’s new strategy in the ongoing air strikes when for the first time the military alliance used attack helicopters on Libya, striking the regime’s military vehicles, military equipment and the forces themselves in Brega.
British Apache helicopters destroyed two military installations near the town of Brega - a military radar site and an armed checkpoint.
Strong clashes between the Yemeni government and Hashed tribesmen are taking place in the southern region of Sanaa, near the residence of Hussein Ahmar, on 50th street of the capital Sana’a.
The Ahmar family have at least four residence in the area. Locals fear that the fighting will spread to different areas part of the capital after they were mostly focused in northern Sana’a.. At least 400 families have evacuated their homes in the last two hours, eyewitnesses said.
In an attempt to surprise Somaliland forces stationed in the outskirt of Tukaraq village, Puntland militia arm with dozen technical pickup trucks mounted with machine guns and 4 commercial trucks carrying fighters attacked an army barrack earlier today.
The fighting began just before noon prayer when Puntland militia made a daring attack on Somaliland forces based on the front line, however Somaliland forces were able to rout the militia.
According to Ahmed Hussein Somaliland military officer based in Las Anod who spoke with SomalialndPress reporter on phone “fighting began noon and lasted several hours in which Somaliland army overpowered the militias and captured five militias, one battle wagon and few hundred rounds of ammunition”.
Government officials and residents said fighters from al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) were among those who seized Zinjibar, in Abyan province.
But opponents said President Ali Abdullah Saleh had given up the town to stoke fears of a militant takeover.
He is resisting calls to step down, despite months of popular protests and growing opposition from a key tribe.
Satellite Sentinel Project (SSP) has identified Sudan Armed Forces (SAF) equipped with heavy armor and artillery at the El Obeid Barracks, approximately 270 miles from Abyei town, possibly preparing for deployment to southern areas.
Based on analysis of available transportation logistics and the formation of the units, SSP has concluded that the forces there are capable of imminent forward movement.
President Boris Tadic of Serbia announced at a news conference in Belgrade on Thursday that Ratko Mladic, the fugitive accused of masterminding the massacre at Srebrenica in 1995, had been captured.
Mr. Mladic, a former Bosnian Serb general, was one of the world’s most wanted criminals, evading capture for more than 15 years despite an increasing international effort to hunt him down. Serbian news reports said that he was living under the name of Milorad Komadic and that he was captured after a tip that he had identification documents for Mladic and appeared physically similar.
Mr. Mladic was blamed for the worst ethnically motivated mass murder on the Continent since World War II, which resulted in the massacre of about 8,000 Muslim men and boys from the Bosnian town of Srebrenica.
Elisabeth Byrs, spokeswoman for the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, said: “We have a rough estimate of 15,000 people displaced in and around Agok town.”
Agok is about 40 kilometres (25 miles) south of Abyei. Abyei, claimed by both north and south, was due to vote on its future alongside a referendum on independence for the south.