Thursday, August 27, 2015
Kurdish Peshmerga forces attacked Islamic State insurgents in a cluster of villages in Iraq’s northern province of Kirkuk on Wednesday, bent on securing territory they have gained in the course of rolling back the jihadists since last summer.
The assault began overnight south of Daquq, a town about 175 km (108 miles) north of the Iraqi capital Baghdad. The front line between the regional Kurdish peshmerga forces and Islamic State in northern Iraq has hardly budged for months.
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Wednesday, August 26, 2015
South Sudan president, Salva Kiir has finally signed the internationally-backed regional brokered peace deal, raising hopes of possible end months of conflict in the young nation amid threats for sanctions and an arms embargo.
Kiir inked the deal at 4.54 pm (local time) at a ceremony attended by his Uganda counterpart, Yoweri Museveni, Kenya’s Uhuru Kenyatta, Ethiopian prime minister, Hailemarian Desalegn and Sudan’s vice president, Bakari Hassan.
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The Turkish military said on Tuesday 34 militants from the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) were killed in its latest air strikes on the group’s camps in northern Iraq’s Qandil mountain region.
Turkey has been bombing PKK targets in northern Iraq and in mostly Kurdish southeastern Turkey since July 24, in response to what it says are increased attacks by the Kurdish militants on members of the security forces.
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Tuesday, August 25, 2015
Terror reigns in Sirte. Military fighter aircraft bombed ISIS positions Tuesday morning with an imprecise number of victims.
At the same time, while about a hundred immigrants were being rescued from the Straight of Sicily, the jihadists killed four people and publicly displayed the crucified body of the one of the victims. The brutality put into place by the cutthroats loyal to the Caliph was documented in a video, released online this time as well.
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North and South Korea wrapped up marathon talks Tuesday with an agreement aimed at defusing a crisis that had pushed the two rivals to the brink of armed conflict.
The South’s lead negotiator, National Security Adviser Kim Kwan-Jin, said the North had agreed to a key demand to voice “regret” over recent mine blasts at the border that maimed two South Korean soldiers.
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