Friday, October 26, 2012
Two park rangers and a soldier were killed in a firefight with armed militia in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, where rebels have transformed Africa’s oldest national park into a war zone, officials said on Friday.
Congo’s rugged eastern borderlands are among the world’s most bio-diverse areas and are home to one of the last remaining populations of mountain gorillas. But they have also been at the center of nearly two decades of armed conflict, which have left millions dead.
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Thursday, October 25, 2012
One of four Italian soldiers wounded in a firefight with Afghan insurgents Thursday has died in hospital, taking Italy’s death toll in the eight-year NATO-led ISAF mission to 52.
Alpine Brigade Corporal Tiziano Chierotti, 24, from the northwestern costal town of Sanremo, had surgery on abdominal wounds but “nothing could be done,” military sources said in Rome.
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Wednesday, October 24, 2012
Forces from the national army together with allied brigades have taken control of Bani Walid, the last pro-Qaddafi stronghold in Libya.
The announcement was made today by Chief of Staff General Yusuf Mangoush, following reports that the army and allied brigades had succeeded in entering and holding the centre of the town early this morning.
Sporadic fighting was reported between the opposing forces today, but only in certain small pockets of the hilltop town.
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Police and federal security service (FSB) operatives on Wednesday killed two militants in Russia’s predominantly Islamic republic of Tatarstan, as the radical Islamist insurgency shows signs of spreading from the North Caucasus to central Russia.
“The gunmen were killed in the police assault on the building,” spokesman for the Russian Investigative committee, Vladimir Markin, said. “They were suspects in the recent attacks on Muslim leaders in Tatarstan.”
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Tuesday, October 23, 2012
Rebel shelling killed two children in the capital of Sudan’s South Kordofan state on Tuesday, the army said, in what insurgents called retaliation for government air raids on villages.
The attack, confirmed by witnesses, was the second this month by the Sudan People’s Liberation Movement-North (SPLM-N) against Kadugli, after seven women and children were reportedly killed in an unprecedented barrage on October 8.
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