Tuesday, July 30, 2013
Militants belonging to the Pakistani Taliban and disguised in police uniforms launched an attack, late on Monday, on a prison in Dera Ismail Khan, a city in Pakistan’s Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa Province, and managed to free at least 247 prisoners.
Banned Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan, or TTP, used rocket-propelled grenades and machine guns to launch the attack on the prison, which is located near South Waziristan, Pakistan’s lawless tribal region along the border with Afghanistan, news reports said.
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Monday, July 29, 2013
Attacks mainly targeting Shiite-majority areas of Iraq killed at least 54 people on Monday, while security forces killed 10 militants, officials said, as the interior ministry warned of civil war.
More than 800 people have now been killed in violence so far this month, according to AFP figures based on security and medical sources–an average of upwards of 27 a day.
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Sunday, July 28, 2013
On Sunday, Syria forces gained control over most of the western city’s Khaldiyeh area, where they had already captured the Khalid bin Walid Mosque on Saturday.
The Syrian army says the militants had planted tens of explosive devices inside the mosque building.
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Saturday, July 27, 2013
Gunmen attacked a coastguard checkpost in southwestern Pakistan on Saturday, killing at least seven officials and wounding seven others, officials said.
The incident happened in the Suntsar area of Gwadar district in Balochistan province at around 3 a.m.
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Friday, July 26, 2013
Clashes have resumed between government troops and allied ethnic armed groups in northern Shan State, almost a month after the gunfire last stopped.
Fighting continued on Thursday evening at an outpost of the ethnic Ta’ang National Liberation Army (TNLA). Two days earlier, the TNLA and allied troops from the Kachin Independence Army (KIA) clashed with the government’s Light Infantry Battalion No. 506, which attacked their outposts in a KIA-controlled area.
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