Sunday, September 9, 2012
At least 44 people have been killed in a wave of attacks across Iraq, including soldiers at an army post and police recruits waiting in line to apply for jobs, officials said.
Insurgents killed at least 44 people in a wave of attacks against Iraqi security forces on Sunday, gunning down soldiers at an army post and bombing police recruits waiting in line to apply for jobs, officials said.
Sunday’s violence, which struck at least 11 cities and also wounded nearly 240 people, highlighted militant attempts to sow havoc in the country and undermine the government.
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Saturday, September 8, 2012
Clashes erupted between Sudan’s army and rebels in the western Darfur region and in a southern state, killing dozens of people including civilians, the sides said on Friday, the latest violence in the country’s borderlands.
Sudanese President Omar Hassan al-Bashir is battling an alliance of rebel groups operating in Darfur and two states bordering its neighbor South Sudan.
Sudan accuses South Sudan of supporting the rebels, while Juba says Khartoum funds militias in South Sudan. Diplomats say that both allegations are credible.
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Friday, September 7, 2012
Iran is intensifying its support for the regime of Bashar al-Assad by sending 150 senior Revolutionary Guards commanders to Syria to help repel opposition attempts to overthrow the government.
Western intelligence officials say that Iran’s president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, has personally sanctioned the dispatch of the experienced officers to ensure that the Assad regime, Iran’s most important regional ally, survives the threat to its survival.
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Thursday, September 6, 2012
Colombia’s main leftist rebel group proposed a cease-fire Thursday while it holds peace talks with the government beginning in Norway next month. It also named three negotiators, including a high-ranking guerrilla now imprisoned in the United States.
The rebels said first on their agenda will be a possible truce in the half-century of fighting that has claimed tens of thousands of lives.
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Wednesday, September 5, 2012
A Shining Path guerrilla commander was killed in a firefight with the army and police in the jungles of Peru’s Valley of the Apurimac and Ene rivers, or VRAE, region, President Ollanta Humala said Wednesday.
“We have been able to confirm the death of the so-called Comrade Williams, the number four in the party organization of (Shining) Path in the VRAE, he was the number two military commander,” Humala told Radio Programas del Peru, or RPP.
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