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Ukrainian government forces are preparing for the final stage of recapturing the city of Donetsk from pro-Russia separatist rebels after making significant gains that have divided rebel forces, a military spokesman said on Monday.
The spokesman, Andriy Lysenko, said Kiev’s forces had cut off Donetsk from the other main rebel-held city, Luhansk, on the border with Russia.
Peshmerga kurds forces have recaptured Makhmur town today, in Iraq, thanks to american air strikes.
Al Jazira panarab television said it.
Islamic State militants have killed at least 500 members of Iraq’s Yazidi ethnic minority during their offensive in the north, Iraq’s human rights minister told Reuters on Sunday.
Mohammed Shia al-Sudani said the Sunni militants had also buried alive some of their victims, including women and children. Some 300 women were kidnapped as slaves, he added.
Somali National Army forces together with AU peacekeeping troops fought against al-Shabaab militants outside Qoryooley town of lower Shabelle region, witness said.
The witness said the fighting erupted after al-Shabaab fighters armed with launchers propelled grenades and machine guns attacked on allied forces, conducting security operation in Xero 1-aad and Xero 2-aad at outside in the town.
Alexander Zakharchenko, prime minister of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People’s Republic, on Saturday called for a ceasefire with the Kiev government in a move to prevent a possible ‘humanitarian catastrophe.’
“We are ready to have a ceasefire to avoid a humanitarian catastrophe, but will not surrender under any circumstances,” said Zakharchenko in a written statement.