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The Polisario Front has pledged to confront what it calls Moroccan occupation and expansionism in Western Sahara
Western Sahara’s independence movement, the Polisario Front, has declared general mobilization over an alleged Moroccan military buildup, as UN peacekeepers withdraw from the disputed territory after 35 years.
At least 10 police personnel, including two senior officers, were killed in a militant attack in Pakistan’s northwestern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province on Wednesday, officials told news agency AP.
The attack occurred in Kohat district, where militants targeted vehicles carrying police officers, leading to an exchange of gunfire between the attackers and security forces, local police official Faisal Khan said.
A military court in the Democratic Republic of the Congo has sentenced 66 soldiers to death for offences including desertion, mutiny and disobeying orders during fighting with rebels in the country’s east, according to local media.
The soldiers were among 71 troops tried in Walikale, North Kivu province. Four were acquitted, while one received a 10-year prison sentence.
Clashes intensified on Sunday between the Sudanese army, backed by allied forces, and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) in West Kordofan State.
The military also said it shot down a long-range drone, the third intercepted in the Kordofan region within 72 hours.
Missile explosions struck across Ukraine Saturday, wounding at least nine people, as Kyiv and Moscow prepared for new talks next week with the United States.
Negotiators from Russia, Ukraine and the U.S. are to meet on Tuesday in Abu Dhabi, the capital of the United Arab Emirates, for talks aimed at ending the war. The new round of negotiations would be the fourth brokered by the Trump administration, the most recent having been in Geneva in February.
Fresh fighting was reported on Thursday across several locations in North and South Kivu provinces, raising fresh concerns about efforts to secure a ceasefire in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).
Clashes between the Armed Forces of the Democratic Republic of Congo (FARDC), allied Wazalendo militia fighters and the Front for the Refoundation of the Nation (FRN) rebel movement were reported in Kilongo and Mahanga villages in Nyamaboko I Groupement, Masisi Territory, North Kivu, where FARDC troops and their Wazalendo allies reportedly launched an offensive to dislodge FRN fighters from their positions.
The Sudanese army regained control of two areas in North Kordofan state on Thursday following clashes with the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF), military sources told Anadolu.
The sources said the army and allied forces recaptured Kazgeil and Abu Qaoud after fierce fighting with the RSF.