Monday, September 24, 2012
A joint US-Israeli attack on the Islamic republic could trigger a third world war, a general from Iran’s Revolutionary Guards, has claimed, cited by ‘Digarban’ website.
“World War III could break out if the United States and Israeli forces decided to attack Iran,” said general Amir Ali Hajizadeh, commandar of the Revolutionary Guards’ airforce, cite by Digarban.
“Iran would be ready to launch strikes on US bases in the Gulf and US allies in the region in the event of an attack by the US together with its allies,” Hajizadeh said.
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Thursday, September 6, 2012
Colombia’s main leftist rebel group proposed a cease-fire Thursday while it holds peace talks with the government beginning in Norway next month. It also named three negotiators, including a high-ranking guerrilla now imprisoned in the United States.
The rebels said first on their agenda will be a possible truce in the half-century of fighting that has claimed tens of thousands of lives.
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Wednesday, September 5, 2012
A Shining Path guerrilla commander was killed in a firefight with the army and police in the jungles of Peru’s Valley of the Apurimac and Ene rivers, or VRAE, region, President Ollanta Humala said Wednesday.
“We have been able to confirm the death of the so-called Comrade Williams, the number four in the party organization of (Shining) Path in the VRAE, he was the number two military commander,” Humala told Radio Programas del Peru, or RPP.
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Tuesday, September 4, 2012
Members of the Colombian armed forces have killed 10 FARC guerrillas in combat, the country’s defense minister said Monday.
The rebels were killed in combat in the southern departments of Guaviare and Caqueta departments.
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Saturday, August 18, 2012
Military officials in Peru say rebels have killed five army officers in the jungle region of Junin, some 300km (190 miles) east of the capital, Lima.
Five other soldiers were wounded in the night time ambush in an area where Shining Path rebels operate.
Remnants of the Maoist movement are now thought to be allied with drug traffickers in Peru’s coca-growing heartland.
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