Portugal announces plans to send around 60 troops to its former colony Mozambique following an attack by Islamic State-linked Jihadists. Islamic state-linked groups have taken control over the town of Palma.

Mozambique Violence: Portugal plans to send 60 troops to fight Jihadists

The town of Palma in Northern Mozambique has seen heavy violence and bloodshed for the past six days. But violence escalated on Monday further as armed rebels battled in the army in several locations.

Mozambique: Palma escapees arrive in Pemba, recount violence

A Saudi-led military coalition said Tuesday it will release 200 Yemeni rebels and permit some flights from the insurgent-held capital Sanaa, as efforts to end the nearly five-year conflict gain momentum.

200 Yemen rebels to be freed amid peace push: Saudi-led coalition

The presidential front-runner in Sri Lanka promised Friday he would make the country safer, and free from terrorism.

Rajapaksa launches manifesto; Vows to free soldiers, rebels

A group of foreign reporters on a trip to Syria organised by the Russian Defense Ministry were on Wednesday shown an elaborate network of caves in the strategic northwestern Idlib province said to have been used as a major rebel base.

Journalists see caves formerly used by rebels

A senior pro-government official accused Yemen's Huthi rebels of faking an announced pullout from three strategic ports in Hodeida province on Saturday. "The Huthis are staging a new ploy by handing over the ports of Hodeida, Saleef and Ras Issa to themselves without any monitoring by the United Nations and the government side," provincial governor Al-Hasan Taher told AFP.

Yemen government accuses rebels of 'ploy' over ports pullout

It has a standing army of 25,000, manufactures its own guns and conscripts at least one member of each household -- meet the United Wa State Army: Communist, reclusive, China-backed rebels determined to protect their supremacy over Myanmar's badland border zone.

'Masters of our destiny': Myanmar's Wa rebels in show of force

Yemen's government and rebels doubled down on their rival demands Thursday, just moments before hard-won peace talks were due to open in Sweden under the auspices of the United Nations.

Yemen government, rebels lash out as peace talks set to open

The withdrawal may also be the last in a series of agreed evacuations used by the government to defeat besieged insurgents

Syrian rebels pull out of their last besieged area

The war has been going Assad's way since Russia intervened on his side in 2015

Syrian Army vows to crush rebel-held areas, opposition say strikes not enough

The agreement brokered by government ally Moscow would see fighters with the Jaish al-Islam rebel faction leave Ghouta's main town of Douma

'Deal reached' for Syria rebels to quit last Ghouta holdout

After a six-week blitz the only remaining scrap of rebel-held territory centres on the main town of Douma, but Moscow-brokered talks over a possible evacuation have stalled as the group controlling it has pledged to stay put

Syria Army vows to finish off last rebels in Ghouta

The rebels left on Wednesday, Russia's defence ministry said Thursday

Russia says nearly 5,300 rebels have left Syria's Ghouta for Idlib: Reports

The first pocket, in and around the city of Harasta, was surrendered by the rebels on Thursday, with evacuations beginning then and carrying on through Friday

Hundreds of rebels, families leave Syria's Ghouta

It is suspected that the rebels had stored those to attack the jawans in future, they said.

Odisha: Four Maoists killed in gun battle with security forces

Rebels said they had captured some 15 villages and seized 60 government fighters

Syrian rebels declare counter-attack in Idlib province

The UN humanitarian affairs office had said Friday that it had been given clearance by the Saudi-led coalition that has been fighting the rebels since 2015 to resume flights into Sanaa

First aid flight lands in rebel-held Yemen capital after weeks

Buses carrying residents left the majority Shi'ite towns of al-Foua and Kefraya, Monitor said

Buses evacuate hundreds from four besieged Syria towns under evacuation deal

A dozen Syrian rebel factions have suspended talks, accusing the Assad regime of the regime of 'major and frequent violations'

Fighting puts Syria peace talks at risk

The truce was violated shortly after it came into effect but hours later a monitor said the general 'calm continues'

Syria: Ceasefire survives after initial clashes

Four years of fighting have transformed it from Syria's industrial and commercial powerhouse to a divided and dysfunctional city

Aleppo: The massive task of rebuilding a shattered city

The evacuation of Aleppo's rebel sector is seen as a pivotal moment in the nearly-six-year war that has killed more than 310,000 people

Syrian army urges remaining rebels, civilians to leave Aleppo

Three convoys left Aleppo carrying wounded civilians, fighters and their families, with civilians mostly leaving on buses and ambulances

Thousands leave Aleppo under rebel withdrawal deal

Two days of rebel bombardment have killed 41 civilians, including 16 children, and wounded 250, according to a Britain-based observatory

Syria war: Civilians become collateral damage in fierce fighting between rebels & regime

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