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Troops from the Kachin Independence Army’s (KIA) Regiment 6 attacked a Burma Army camp in Bang Lum Bum Mountain, between Mongyar and Mongkoe in northern Shan State, at 7 pm on 19 June.
An official from KIA Regiment 6 who had returned to Mongkoe and did not want to be named spoke to K.N.G.
Six Jordanian troops were killed and 14 others injured Tuesday when a booby-trapped car struck a forward military post at the no man’s land at the borders between Syria and Jordan, the Jordan Armed Forces-Arab Army said Tuesday.
A car bomb struck the military post dedicated for serving and helping Syrian refugees at the area struck at 5:30am local time, the army said in a statement on its official Facebook page.
Iraqi forces have managed to rescue 354 Izadi women from the Daesh in the recently-liberated city of Fallujah, an Yazidi official with Iraq’s Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) says.
“Iraqi forces involved in Fallujah’s [liberation] operation have managed to free 354 Izadi women, who were abducted by militants of Daesh organization after they took control of the Izadi-majority Shingal (Sinjar) region in August 2014,” Hadi Dubani, the director of Yazidi Affairs in the city of Dohuk, told the German news agency DPA on Sunday.
Syrian government and Russian jets have stepped up the bombardment of a town in northern Syria held by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) group, increasing pressure on the fighters, according to a monitoring group.
Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) said the warplanes carried out at least 18 air strikes since dawn on Sunday on the town of Tabqa, just west of Raqqa, ISIL’s de facto capital in Syria.
Fierce fighting between Kenyan military and al-Shabaab fighters took place in Hosingow area in Lower Jubba region of southern Somalia on Sunday, reports said.
The Kenyan army has engaged in a “fierce” battle with al-Shabaab fighters, according to local residents who said they could heard gunfire and sound of blasts as result of the attack.