Heavy Fighting Erupts in Chad
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Rebels penetrate African nation's capital and clash with government troops near presidential palace.
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NAJAF, Iraq  - Heavy fighting has broken out between Iraqi Shi&#39;ite militiamen and US troops in the holy city of Najaf, leaving many people killed and wounded, medical officials say.
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N'DJAMENA  - Chadian rebels attacked the eastern regional capital of Abeche on Saturday in their latest strike against President Idriss Deby's rule, and aid workers based there said some insurgents had entered the town.
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Fighting erupts between forces of the self-declared Somaliland Republic and those of Puntland, an autonomous region of Somalia, over disputed territory.
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Chadian rebels are pushed back from the capital N'Djamena, which they had seized over the weekend.
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Somali Islamists and pro-government soldiers fought in heavy clashes for a second day on Saturday, witnesses said, in the latest escalation of skirmishing many fear will erupt into all-out war.
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Fighting raged on in the western Sudanese region of Darfur where an African Union helicopter was fired on despite promises by both government and rebels to respect a ceasefire, an AU spokesman said.
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More Sudanese refugees flee across the border into Chad following reports of renewed violence in the Darfur region.
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Hundreds of rebels penetrated the capital of Chad on Saturday, clashing with government troops and moving on the presidential palace after a three-day advance through the central African nation, officials and witnesses said.
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Chadian air force planes on Monday attacked a Chadian rebel base across the border, southwest of El-Geneina in the Darfur region of Sudan, a military source said.
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Some of the heaviest fighting in months hits Somalia's Mogadishu as Ethiopian troops battle local insurgents.
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As combat raged in Chad's capital last weekend, U.S. Embassy staffers were busily shredding sensitive documents in the ambassador's office when a rocket blasted through a wall, roared across the room and burst out the opposite wall before exploding.
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A Chadian military reconnaissance plane was shot down in eastern Chad on Tuesday, a government spokesman said, and a rebel group claimed responsibility. A government spokesman blamed neighboring Sudan for backing the rebels and said it was "a state of war."
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N'DJAMENA  - Nearly 40 people were killed in clashes between Chad's security forces and Arab raiders on horseback who attacked two eastern villages, burning homes and mutilating their victims, the government said on Tuesday.
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afrol News, 20 December - The weekend has seen the resumption of heavy fighting between factions of the Congolese army in the province North Kivu in eastern Congo, close to the Rwandan border.
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Fierce fighting broke out in the holy Iraqi city of Najaf Monday, with numerous explosions and gunfire echoing around a sacred shrine held by followers of a radical Shi'ite cleric, Reuters witnesses said.
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Fighting breaks out between government and rebel forces north of Chad's capital N'Djamena, reports say.