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France said on Sunday it had launched air strikes against an Islamic State group training camp in eastern Syria in an effort to stem its growing presence there.
“France struck in Syria this morning an Islamic State training camp which threatened the security of our country,” Hollande told reporters at the United Nations, about the strike on a camp near Deir al-Zor.
Three villagers were killed by fighting in Mai Hkawng village, in eastern Kachin State’s Mansi Township, on the afternoon of Wednesday 23 September at 5:30 PM, the Kachin News Group has learned.
Two more civilians were injured by the fighting between government forces and troops from the Kachin Independence Organization (KIO). Fighting flared up again in Mansi Township last week and has displaced more than 250 people, aid workers say.
Heavy clashes are under way in Benghazi: witnesses in Libyan town referred it to ANSA.
Clashes are particularly intense near the market.
At least eight people were killed late Thursday in an attack on an army camp in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo that local sources blamed on Rwandan Hutu rebels targeted by a Congolese army operation.
Gunmen raided the camp in the village of Rumangabo, about 45 kilometers (30 miles) north of North Kivu’s provincial capital of Goma, about 11 p.m., said Jean Claude Mbabanze, president of the Civil Society of Rutshuru.
Yemen officials say airstrikes by the Saudi-led coalition targeting the country’s Shiite rebels as well as fighting on the ground between rebels and pro-government fighters in the central city of Taiz have killed at least 13 people and wounded dozens.