Tuesday, July 27, 2010
Security forces from the Somali breakaway state of Puntland said Monday they had raided an obscure but growing al-Qaeda linked militia whose leader is on a UN Security Council watchlist.
Three Puntland soldiers were killed in the pre-dawn raid on cave-riddled mountains near Galgala in western Puntland, where officials say local warlord Mohamed Said Atom has been building a force of several hundred militants.
“The operation was launched early this morning. So far, we have lost three soldiers. Seven were also wounded,” Colonel Abdurahman Ali, a security official in Puntland’s economic capital of Bosasso, told AFP.
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http://www.markacade … 2010/20100726_5e.htm
Monday, July 26, 2010
A dozen of talibans, included their commander, have been surrendered in Herat afghan province under italian military jurisdiction.
Pajhwok afghan press agency referred it.
Commander Rahimullah and his men operated against afghan and international forces in Shindand district.
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Tribal mediators succeeded yesterday in brokering a ceasefire between al-Houthi rebels and a tribe (al Aziz) backed by the government after days of heavy fighting in the north killed more than 60 people.
Mohammed Abdulsalam, a al-Houthi spokesman, said the ceasefire was reached after the mediation of tribal chieftains.
“The ceasefire is stable and the mediation committee is in the region, but we need a mediator who has the ability to exercise pressure and monitor the ceasefire on the ground,” Mr Abdulsalam said. He did not have details on the agreement.
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Saturday, July 24, 2010
Iran president accuses americans to attack “once or two countries” in Middle East friends of Tehran regime.
And russian president Medvedev to have become “spokesman” of Usa strategy. “But iranian nation will break their propaganda”.
Ahmadinejad attacks Usa and Russia, first accused to prepare war against “one or two countries of Middle East”, the second to have become accomplice. Even though iranian president, quoted by Mehr agency, doesn’t talk of a direct attack to his country, it would be of one “scenario of war against Iran”, a “copycat” prepared by americans that provides to “attack one or two countries in Middle East friends of Iran with help of Sionists to weaken the determination of iranian nation.
But iranian nation - affirmed Ahmadinejad - will shatter hundreds of staged propaganda like this”.
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http://www.repubblic … rano_guerra-5793296/
North Korea today threatened a “physical response” to planned military exercises by the US and South Korea this weekend, as tensions on the Korean peninsula dominated a regional security forum in Hanoi.
The regime did not specify what that response might be, but said it interpreted the launch on Sunday of four days of naval and air drills in the Sea of Japan as another sign of US “hostility”.
“It is a threat to the Korean peninsula and the region of Asia as a whole,” a North Korea spokesman, Ri Tong-il, told reporters at the Asean regional forum.
The News:
http://www.guardian. … ns-physical-response