Sunday, February 8, 2015
More than 40 Ukrainian soldiers were killed in fighting in Donbas in the past 24 hours, deputy head of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR) militia Eduard Basurin said Sunday.
“The losses of the military structures of the Ukrainian government in the past 24 hours were as follows: 11 tanks, eight of which were destroyed and three were captured… nine units of artillery, 11 cars. When it comes to personnel, 45 people were killed,” Basurin said.
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Boko Haram staged an overnight assault on a border town in Niger, residents said Sunday, the second time the nation has come under attack by the extremists since Friday.
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Saturday, February 7, 2015
A day after taking power, Shiite rebels in Yemen found themselves increasingly under pressure Saturday as thousands protested against their rule and a group of nearby countries denounced their “coup.”
The leader of the Houthi rebels, Abdel-Malak al-Houthi, gave an impassioned speech defending dissolving Yemen’s parliament Friday as the only response to a power “vacuum” — one his group created by besieging the country’s president, who later resigned.
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Syrian Kurdish fighters have seized dozens of villages from Islamic State group jihadists around the town of Kobani in Syrian Kurdistan on the Turkish border, expanding their control in the area, a monitor said Friday.
The Kurdish People’s Protection Units (YPG) had captured 101 villages around Kobani since seizing it from IS on January 26 after four months of fighting, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.
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Friday, February 6, 2015
Islamist militant group Boko Haram, attacked a military base in eastern Niger, expanding its reign of terror across the region, witnesses said on Friday.
It is the first time the Nigeria-based insurgents launched an assault in Niger, after infiltrating northern Cameroon for the past few months, killing dozens of people.
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