Azeri military base, 5 soldiers destroyed in Armenia’s retaliation

September 25, 2015 By administrator

Armenian troops retaliated to Azeri shelling of Armenian villages in the province of Tavush. At least 5 Azerbaijani soldiers were destroyed in the counterattack, with another 5 injured, Panorama.am reports.

Azerbaijani military base, located on the hills opposite to Armenian village of Paravakar was also destroyed.

The Armenian village of Paravakar in Tavush province was shelled by Azerbaijani armed forces Thursday, September 24.

A village resident, Paytsar Aghajanyan was deadly wounded, the chief of Paravakar, Roland Margaryan told PanARMENIAN.net.

Other border villages were also bombarded: Sona Revazyan (born in 1974) and Shushan Asatryan (born in 1921) were killed in the border village of Berdavan.

The Armenian military warned about retaliatory measures, “with Azerbaijani military-political authorities to bear the entire responsibility for the consequences.”

Turkey Three police officers killed in PKK attacks in Turkey’s southeast

September 13, 2015 By administrator

A total of three police officers were killed and seven were wounded on Sept. 13 in two separate attacks by the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) in the southeastern Şırnak and Diyarbakır provinces, Doğan News Agency has reported.

PKK detonated a bomb-laden vehicle in front of a police checkpoint in Şırnak early in the morning, killing two police officers and wounding five.

According to initial reports, two militants responsible for the attack were killed as an air-supported operation began to apprehend the other fleeing militants.

In a separate attack in Diyarbakır’s Silvan province, PKK killed one police officer and wounded two, including a civilian.

PKK attacked a group of police team heading toward Mescit neighborhood to cover up the ditches dug by the Patriotic Revolutionary Youth Movement (YDG-H), the youth wing of the PKK. One police officer inside an earth-digger was killed as a rocket-propelled grenade hit on it. Police forces immediately responded the attack and an armed clash erupted with the militants. One police officer and one civilian who was on his balcony during the clashes were wounded.

Gunmen in Afghan uniforms kill two US troops in Helmand report:

August 26, 2015 By administrator

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KABUL: Men wearing Afghan military uniforms shot dead two Nato soldiers in the country’s south on Wednesday, the coalition said, the first insider attack on foreign troops since the Taliban’s bitter power transition.

No group has so far claimed responsibility for Wednesday’s attack in Helmand, which coincided with the fall of a strategic district in the volatile opium-rich province to Taliban insurgents.

“Two Resolute Support (Nato) service members died early this morning when two individuals wearing Afghan (military) uniforms opened fire on their vehicle at an (Afghan security forces) compound in Helmand province,” a Nato statement said.

“Resolute Support service members returned fire and killed the shooters,” it added, without revealing the nationalities of the foreign soldiers.

So-called “green-on-blue” attacks — when Afghan soldiers or police turn their guns on international troops — have been a major problem during Nato’s long years fighting alongside Afghan forces.

In another development, Taliban insurgents overran the key northern district of Musa Qala after fierce fighting, according to a provincial council member.

Officials fear that the fall of the district, once a key Nato position, could help the militants topple adjoining districts, tightening their grip on northern Helmand.

“Many people have been killed or injured in the fighting. We barely made it out of the district alive,” said Mullah Abdul Jalil, a resident of Musa Qala who fled with his family to the provincial capital Lashkar Gah.

Taliban insurgents are ramping up their summer offensive launched in late April amid their simmering leadership dispute. Mullah Akhtar Mansour was named as the insurgents’ new chief in late July but the power transition has been acrimonious.

The insider attack was the first such incident since Mansour’s ascension following the announcement of the death of Mullah Omar.

The Nato statement did not give the precise location of the attack, which highlights long-simmering tensions between Afghan and foreign forces.

Western officials say most such incidents stem from personal grudges and cultural misunderstandings rather than insurgent plots.

The killings have bred fierce mistrust between local and foreign forces even though their number has declined in recent years.

The last insider attack was in April, when an American soldier was killed in a firefight between US and Afghan troops in eastern Afghanistan.

US Defence Secretary Ashton Carter at the time said the soldier’s killing showed that work remains to shore up Afghan forces in the “dangerous” country.

Nato ended its combat mission in Afghanistan last December and pulled out the bulk of its troops although a 13,000-strong residual force remains for training and counter-terrorism operations.

One of the worst insider attacks took place last August when US Major General Harold Greene was killed — the most senior American military officer to die in action overseas since the Vietnam War.

Nato troops have adopted special security measures in recent years to try to counter the threat.

The Afghan military, which has been built from scratch since the fall of the Taliban regime in 2001, has also struggled with insider attacks, high casualty rates and mass desertions.

Stretched on multiple fronts as the insurgency expands, Afghan forces are facing their first fighting season without the full support of Nato forces.

Turkey attack kills soldier in southeast Turkey

August 22, 2015 By administrator

A militant attack on an army post in southeast Turkey has left one Turkish soldier dead and four others injured, the Turkish military says.

The militant rocket and sniper attack took place late Friday in the Beytussebap district of Turkey’s Sirnak Province, an army statement said.

The Turkish army said the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) was behind the attack.

Continued clashes

Clashes have been going on on a daily basis between the PKK and Turkish armed forces since July, when the military started its raids against PKK positions in southeast Turkey as well as in northern Iraq.

Turkey says its warplanes have conducted new air strikes against PKK targets, killing 29 militants on Thursday and Friday. Separately, at least 12 militants were killed as the military clashed with PKK members near the town of Uludere, close to Turkey’s border with Iraq on Friday, the military said.

Meanwhile, Turkish media reported that suspected PKK members threw two bombs outside the regional headquarters of the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) in the city of Diyarbakir, damaging a police water cannon truck parked outside and injuring a policeman who was inside the building.

Officials, driver go missing

Also, ten Turkish customs officials and a driver were reported missing in the eastern Van region of Turkey, Anatolia news agency reported, adding that the missing people were possibly abducted by the PKK.

The PKK is concentrated in the Kurdish-dominated southeast of the country.

The PKK has been fighting the Turkish government for separation since 1984.

Turkey, PKK Mine explosion kills one soldier in Turkey’s east

August 13, 2015 By administrator

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BİNGÖL – Doğan News Agency

One soldier was killed on Aug. 13 after stepping on a mine laid by Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) in the eastern province of Bingöl.

Clashes erupted in Bingöl’s Genç district between security forces and PKK during which the soldier stepped on the mine. He was rushed to the Bingöl State Hospital but ultimately succumbed to his injuries.

The clashes between the security forces and the PKK are reportedly continuing in the area.

Armenian soldier killed in Azerbaijani sniper attack

August 12, 2015 By administrator

An Armenian soldier was killed in the country’s eastern border zone in a sniper attack launched by Azerbaijan’s military, a spokesperson for the Ministry of Defense says on Facebook.
“Unfortunately, today we also suffered a loss. Private Karen P Hovhannisyan was killed by an Azerbaijani sniper. We have to state with a deep grief that nothing will go unanswered,” reads the post shared by Artsrun Hovhannisyan.

In a press release earlier today, the Ministry reported two border infiltration attempts by Azerbaijan’s armed forces.
“Armenia’s political-military leadership has repeatedly warned that the aspirations and statements to achieve a military solution to the conflict are a self-deception, with the subversive acts stemming from such a logic being fraught with unforeseeable consequences for Azerbaijan’s military,” read the statement.

Turkey landmine blast kills 4 police officers

August 10, 2015 By administrator

A landmine explosion in southeastern Turkey has claimed the lives of four police officers and seriously wounded another.

The explosion took place in the Silopi district of Sırnak province on Monday, Turkey’s Today’s Zaman newspaper reported, noting that the device is “suspected to have been planted by Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK)” members. Report Presstv

Earlier in the day, two assailants opened fire at the US Consulate building in the Turkish city of Istanbul, causing a gunfight with the police. No one was hurt in the attack.

Ankara has blamed the Revolutionary People’s Liberation Party-Front (DHKP-C), an outlawed Marxist–Leninist party, for the attack.

Also on Monday, at least five police officers and two civilians were injured in a bomb attack on a police station in Istanbul.

Last month, a bomber carried out an attack in the southeastern Turkish province of Sanlıurfa, killing over 30 activists and injuring more than 100 people. Violence has flared up between Turkey’s security forces and the PKK since the bombing, although, it was blamed on the Daesh (ISIL) Takfiri terrorist group.

Following the bombing, Ankara started waging attacks against alleged Daesh targets in Syria and the PKK in northern Iraq.

The PKK has been fighting for an autonomous Kurdish region inside Turkey since the 1980s. The conflict has left tens of thousands of people dead.

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July 27, 2015 By administrator

Azeris Kill Armenian Soldier at Nakhichevan Border

June 26, 2015 By administrator

Armenian border patrol units on the Nakhichevan border

YEREVAN—Azerbaijani forces launched attacks against Armenian border units stationed at the Nakhichevan border, killing one soldier, reported Armenian Defense Ministry spokesperson Artsrun Hovhannisyan in Facebook post Friday.

At 6:30 p.m., according to Hovhannisyan’s post, Azerbaijani forces launched attack against the town of Gorhayk in the Syunik Region, using heavy artillery.

As a result of retaliation efforts by Armenian forces, the Azerbaijani side incurred heavy losses, said Honhannisyan on his Facebook post.

“Unfortunately, however, during the operation, Armenian Army soldier Aman Mayisi Yepremyan, born 1987, was killed,” announced Hovhannisyan, who expressed condolences to the soldier’s family on behalf of the Defense Ministry.

Hovhannisyan pointed out that the border with Nakhichevan has not seen active combat since last year, when two Armenian soldiers were killed, prompting an advance by Armenian forces that resulted in the fortification of the border.

The ministry spokesman said that while Armenian Armed Forces were doing everything to restore stability on the border, the Azerbaijani forces were advancing tensions.

Islamic State kills 3 Chinese militants attempting to flee

February 5, 2015 By administrator

The Islamic State has killed three Chinese militants who joined its ranks in Syria and Iraq and later attempted to flee, a Chinese state-run newspaper said, the latest account of fighters from China embroiled in the Middle East conflict, according to Reuters.

China has expressed concern about the rise of the Islamic State, nervous about the effect it could have on its Xinjiang region, which borders Pakistan and Afghanistan.

But Beijing has also shown no sign of wanting to take part in the U.S.-led coalition’s efforts to use military force against the militant group.

Around 300 Chinese extremists were fighting with the Islamic State after traveling to Turkey, the Global Times, a tabloid run by China’s ruling Communist Party’s official newspaper, said in December.

The paper on Thursday cited an unnamed Kurdish security official as saying that a Chinese man was “arrested, tried and shot dead” in Syria in late September by the Islamic State after he became disillusioned with jihad and attempted to return to Turkey to attend university.

“Another two Chinese militants were beheaded in late December in Iraq, along with 11 others from six countries. The Islamic State charged them with treason and accused them of trying to escape,” the official said, according to the paper.

Islamic State, which has seized parts of northern and eastern Syria as well as northern and western Iraq, has killed hundreds off the battlefield since the end of June, when it declared a caliphate.

Chinese officials blame separatists from the East Turkestan Islamic Movement (ETIM) for carrying out attacks in Xinjiang, home to the Muslim Uighur people. But they are vague about how many people from China are fighting in the Middle East.

Foreign Ministry spokesman Hong Lei did not comment on the report at a regular press briefing, but said China was opposed to “all forms of terrorism”.

“China is willing to work with the international community to combat terrorist forces, including ETIM, and safeguard global peace, security and stability,” Hong said.

Human rights advocates say economic marginalization of Uighurs and curbs on their culture and religion are the main causes of ethnic violence in Xinjiang and around Chinathat has killed hundreds of people in recent years. China denies these assertions.

China has criticized the Turkish government for offering shelter to Uighur refugees who have fled through southeast Asia, saying it creates a global security risk.

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