Ethiopian rebels claim to have killed 140 government troops
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Ethiopian rebels on Sunday claimed they had killed at least 140 government troops in an attack in the Ogaden region, where the army is carrying out a crackdown.
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Government forces backed by Ethiopian troops clashed for a second day with Islamic militiamen near a village in southern Somalia, officials said Saturday.
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Somali government troops and their Ethiopian allies used tanks and heavy artillery to battle gunmen who struck a military base at the former defense ministry in Mogadishu on Friday.
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Sudanese rebels from war-torn Darfur killed 41 people in an attack earlier this week on a base for government forces in the neighboring Kordofan region, Sudan's interior ministry said in a statement on Saturday.
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Police clashed with rioting tribesmen Saturday in the Red Sea coastal city of Port Sudan, leaving at least 14 people dead and 16 injured, a government official said. A tribal representative claimed 23 people were dead and 100 others were wounded.
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Rebels attacked an army base in Niger on Friday, killing 13 soldiers, wounding 30 and taking at least 47 prisoners, according to a government statement.
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Rebels firing homemade rockets attacked a military post in southwestern Colombia on Tuesday, killing at least 14 soldiers and wounding about 25, the navy said, describing the bloodiest rebel attack in two years.
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The Sri Lankan government and the Tamil Tigers say that fighting on Thursday has left more than 30 dead.
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Russian troops killed at least 22 rebels in separatist Chechnya on Monday, including a man officials said was linked to the assassination of Chechnya&#39;s pro-Moscow president, media reported.
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More than 150 rebels were killed when U.N. peacekeepers fought off a rebel offensive in east Congo last week, officials said on Tuesday, adding that the heavy losses had led to surrenders among the divided insurgents.
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At least three people were killed when a firefight erupted between unidentified insurgents and Ethiopian troops near a military base in the Somali capital Tuesday hours after the arrival of African Union peacekeepers, witnesses said.
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An Ethiopian military convoy in Somalia is ambushed by Islamist fighters who claim 20 were killed, witnesses say.
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A Burundian rebel movement was responsible for the August 13 slaughter of more than 150 civilians at Gatumba refugee camp in Burundi, and not the combined forces of Hutu and Mai-Mai fighters who have been blamed for the attack, Human Rights Watch said in
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At least eight civilians are killed after insurgents ambush Ethiopian troops in the Somali capital.
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KHARTOUM, Sudan, Sept. 25 -- Sudanese authorities accused an opposition party Saturday of plotting to kill more than three dozen senior government officials and blow up key sites in the capital, where heavily armed troops were out in force for a second day.
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At least 15 people were killed and dozens wounded in clashes in volatile southern Somalia, one warring group and media reports said on Friday, deepening a political crisis in a country trying to form a new government.
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Sri Lankan troops have killed at least 29 Tamil Tiger rebels, taking the two-day death toll to 44 amid fresh fighting in the island's north, the military said on Saturday.