Sunday, November 3, 2013
Shi’ite Muslim al-Houthi rebels pressed their offensive on Saturday against a town in north Yemen held by their Sunni Muslim Salafi rivals, a Salafi spokesman said, bringing the total death toll in four days of sectarian clashes to 55.
Spokesman Serour al-Wadei denied a statement on the Yemeni defense ministry website saying that the fighting in the town of Dammaj had ended on Friday afternoon and that the Yemeni army had taken up positions in the troubled area.
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Saturday, November 2, 2013
Somali government soldiers, backed by African Union peacekeepers, have clashed with al-Shabaab fighters on the outskirts of Kolbiyo, a town in lower Jubba province near the Kenya-Somalia border.
About 80 government soldiers on pick-up trucks attacked the group’s bases 10km from the town on Saturday, an al-Shabaab spokesman told Al Jazeera.
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Friday, November 1, 2013
TTP chief Hakimullah Mehsud
Hakimullah Mehsud, the chief of the Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), was killed in a US drone strike in North Waziristan tribal agency on Friday, intelligence officials said.
Pakistani intelligence officials have reported to their higher-ups that the Pakistani Taliban supremo was leaving from a meeting at a mosque Dande Darpakhel area of North Waziristan when the drone targeted their vehicle.
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Thursday, October 31, 2013
Five armed Taliban including a commander of them were killed in a clash in Urozgan province the other day.
Mullah Hayatullah local commander of Tliban in Trenkot city was among the dead.
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