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The Yemeni army took control of the important al-Qaeda stronghold Azzan in the Shabwa province as its offensive against them entered its tenth day on Thursday. The army’s offensive had begun on April 29th in the country’s central and southern provinces, where US drone strikes have killed several al-Qaeda suspects in the last month. In its statement, the Defense Ministry, …

On Tuesday, New York-based Human Rights Watch called for the UN Security Council to stop the supply of weapons to the Syrian regime, which it said was launching attacks with “barrel bombs”. The Human Rights Watch said that it had documented 85 aerial attacks by the Syrian regime against the opposition in areas they control, like the Aleppo province, since …

On Thursday, Sudan called for a probe into the “assassination” of Sudanese nationals in an oil town in South Sudan, where the UN has in the past accused rebels of killing several hundred civilians. The official SUNA news agency, in an SMS alert, said “The foreign ministry condemns assassination of the Sudanese nationals in Bentiu and calls for urgent investigation”. …

On Thursday, Pakistani jet fighters attacked several Taliban hideouts in the lawless north-western tribal belt, killing at least twelve suspected militants, officials said. This is the first time the military has launched air strikes on the Taliban since their ceasefire agreement to help with the peace talks on March 1. According to security sources, at least twelve militants were killed, …

On Wednesday, a police brigadier general was killed by a bomb planted under his car; the attack is the fifth such targeted blast in Cairo this week. The attack, in the upscale suburb of 6th October City, killed commander of Egypt’s central security forces Ahmed Zaki, who spearheaded a crackdown on Morsi supporters. Morsi supporters have launched several attacks, mostly …

On Monday, a Yemeni and US air campaign killed at least 68 al-Qaeda members in an attempt to one-up al-Qaeda’s local affiliate. Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) has been connected to several failed terror plots against the US, and its leader had made a rare appearance in a recent video, in which he promised to attack Western “crusaders … …

The United Nations released a statement on Friday reporting the death of at least 58 people in an attack on a UN base in South Sudan in the government-controlled town Bor; over a 100 people were said to be wounded in the attack. Toby Lanzer, the top UN official in the country, praised the efforts of peacekeepers from Nepal, South …