Heavy fighting between the transitional government soldiers and al-Shabaab has started at the out in parts around Beledweyn town of Hiran region in central Somali on Saturday morning, witnesses told Shabelle radio.

The fighting had reportedly started as many of al-Shabaab fighters attacked at El-gal village in out of Beledwyn town where there had been military base for the Somali government troops.

The real casualties of the fighting are unclear so far, but residents in the areas said that the sound of heavy weapon could be heard all directions in the areas.

The people of Beleweyn town have great fears over the fighting between the two sides as and reports from the town indicate that there was no businesses and public traffic movements there on Saturday morning.

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Two field commanders of the Islamic opposition located in eastern Tajikistan’s Rasht Valley have reportedly agreed to lay down their weapons and join forces with government troops to “hunt down foreign militants.”

The independent news agency Asia-Plus quoted authorities in Rasht as saying that 27 members of armed groups commanded by Mirzokhuja Ahmadov and Mullo Sadriddin surrendered their weapons earlier this week.

The news came after local media reported on October 14 that Tajik officials were negotiating with local commanders in Rasht to end intense fighting that has been going on in the onetime militant stronghold for nearly a month. The ongoing military operation against militants began when 28 government troops were killed on September 19 when their convoy was ambushed in Rasht’s remote Kamarob Gorge.

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An explosion at a base belonging to Iran’s Revolutionary Guards has killed 18 people and injured 14.

Reports are emerging of the blast at an ammunitions store on Tuesday in north-western Lorestan province.

The injured were taken to Khoramabad, 300 miles (500 km) southwest of Tehran.

An elite military force, the Revolutionary Guard was set up shortly after the 1979 Iranian revolution to defend the country’s Islamic system.

The north-west of Iran has seen several attacks in recent months by Kurdish militants against the Iranian military.

The military is fighting armed groups and separatist movements in the south-east along the border with Pakistan as well as in the far north-west along the border with Iraq.

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Peruvian police have arrested a top commander of the Maoist Shining Path guerrilla group in an operation in which two alleged rebel fighters were killed, local media reported on Wednesday.

Edgar Mejia, also known as “Comrade Izula,” was detained at noon, Marlon Savitzky, a police chief in the Huallaga region was quoted as saying by Peru 21 in its website.

Savitzky said the rebel leader is suspected of leading guerrilla groups in two gun battles with police in the past few years in which 11 police officers and a representative of the attorney’s office were killed.

In Peru’s main coca growing regions, the Alto Huallaga, the Ene and Apurimac River Valleys, police and soldiers often clash with cocaine smugglers with links to the Shining Path group that waged a war against the state in the 1980s and 1990s.

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Three soldiers of International Security Assistance Force (Isaf, under Nato command) have died today in western Afghanistan. 3 soldiers killed are not italians. Western region is that where are actually deployed almost more than 3.500 italian soldiers present in Afghanistan. Isaf referred only that the death occurred because outbreak of rudimentary bomb.

In last 24 hours 9 foreign soldiers died in attacks.

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Ethiopia signed a peace deal on Tuesday to end 20 years of war with a rebel faction that has comprised the main threat to foreign oil and gas firms in the disputed Ogaden region, both sides said.

Abay Tsehaye, national security adviser to Prime Minister Meles Zenawi, welcomed the signing of the deal as something that would strengthen unity in the Horn of Africa country.

But the spokesman for a rival wing in the fractious Ogaden National Liberation Front (ONLF) run by former Somali navy chief Admiral Mohamed Omar Osman called the deal “irrelevant”, raising questions about its breadth and staying power.

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Somali militants accused the nation’s transitional government of “baseless propaganda” after officials said the rebel group is on the verge of splitting up.

Government forces have seized more areas in the capital of Mogadishu with the help of African Union troops, officials said in a statement.

“These gains come amidst reports that the al-Shabaab’s second in command has withdrawn his forces from the city as rifts within the extremist group deepen in the wake of the failed Ramadan offensive,” a government statement said this week.

The transitional government has expanded the areas it controls in Mogadishu to seven districts that are home to 90 percent of the city’s population, according to the government.

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