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At least 20 al-Shabaab fighters have been killed in clashes with Somali government forces in Bay region of southwestern Somalia on Monday, military sources have confirmed.
The commander of Somali National Army (SNA)’s 60thdivision stationed in Daynunay base, Ismael Khalif Shire, said that 20 militants were killed after botched raid on the military camp near Bay regional capital of Baidoa.
A total of 314 villagers have taken refuge in Si Taung Village (also known as Taung Maw Village) in Buthidaung Township, Arakan State after Burma Army artillery shells fell on their villages.
The refugees are Arakan, Khami, Daingnet, and Chin people from the villages of Nat Ai, Kyaw Lann Chaung, and A Bu.
Two soldiers from the Armenian-backed Nagorno-Karabakh were killed by gunfire from Azerbaijan in the early hours of Tuesday, the defence ministry of the breakaway region said.
There was no immediate response from Azerbaijani authorities.
More than 3,000 people have been displaced in western Colombia amid fighting between left-wing ELN rebels, their neo-paramilitary rivals “Los Urabeños” and the army, according to authorities.
The Ombudsman’s Office and the United Nations reported that the people mainly of indigenous and of African descent were forced to leave their homes in the Choco province following the recent outbreak of hostilities between the two rival groups.
The Egyptian Armed Forces killed 30 militants on Monday in air raids in the country’s restive North Sinai province, the military spokesman said in a statement.
The raids coincide with the military celebration of the 34th anniversary of Sinai Liberation Day marking the withdrawal of the Israeli troops from Taba, the last occupied part of the Sinai Peninsula.