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Sudanese forces say they have seized control of a key rebel held area in the western Darfur region after killing more than 150 members of the Justice and Equality Movement (Jem).
“We have liberated Jebel Moon from the Justice and Equality Movement,” Al-Sawarmi Khaled, an army spokesman, said on Saturday.
“We have detained 61 rebels and confiscated 16 cars and three large trucks.”
The army gave no details of army casualties in the clashes.
A renegade south Sudan army commander said on Tuesday he had clashed with the oil-producing region’s military for a second time and threatened to attack an important town if the assault continued.
George Athor, who stood as an independent candidate in April elections for governor of Jonglei State and lost to the ruling party, has been on the run since late April, when the southern army (SPLA) accused him of ordering an attack on a barracks that killed eight soldiers.
One of the main rebel groups in Sudan’s Darfur region has threatened “all-out war” if its leader is arrested.
Sudanese officials have asked Interpol to arrest Justice and Equality Movement (Jem) leader Khalil Ibrahim for planning an attack in Omdurman in 2008.
Jem signed a ceasefire with the government in February but left peace talks earlier this month, claiming the government had launched new raids.
Gunmen attacked at least six checkpoints in the Iraqi capital on Monday, killing seven Iraqi troops and policemen, while bombs planted at three others injured several more, an Interior Ministry source said, according to Reuters.
In separate incidents, a roadside bomb targeting a police patrol killed two people in south Baghdad while bombs outside policemen’s homes in the western province of Anbar and a suicide car bomb in the northern city of Mosul killed another six.
Five armored car stopped by the Gendarmerie to Fiorina. Soldiers: we took wrong road. Republic does protest.
When talking about incidents on the border, come to mind militar fights at 38° parallel between two Koreas, on Golan between Israel and Siria, or in the water of Ussuri between troups of ex Urss and China of Mao. More strange that can happen at border between Italy, that in Costitution refuses war, and very italian, for language and culture, San Marino Republic, that more over, such as Swiss, is neutral: even five centuries.
Though something like it it’s happen, and in little state perched on Titano someone has feared that it was going on an attempt of military occupation by giant neighbor, with which, fiscal problems in the background, from time relations are not good, to not say tense, before to discover with comfort that it was only an error of a group of five motor vehicles of army, lagunar regiment La Serenissima di Venezia, that had taken (accidentally, allegedly) a shortcut on foreign ground.
Sudanese army denied rumors of imminent attack on the capital of North Darfur by the rebel Justice and Equality Movement (JEM) saying no any city is besieged in Darfur.
Despite the signing of a framework agreement and a truce in Doha on 23 February the Sudanese army and JEM rebels accused each other of attacks. Last week, the rebel group suspended its participation in the peace process to protest continual air and ground attacks on its positions.
Big maneuvers against al-Qaeda in Algeria. Houndreds of soldiers partecipating to military exercises in the desert of Sahara for the launch operations combing in the areas where terrorists of al-Qaeda are hiding and where are traffics of smuggling.
Operations are also interested in the armies of Mauritania, Mali, Niger that have decided to increment number of their soldiers, in base of road map decided in Algeri.