#heavy fighting

Collection of heavy fighting news, found 36 news.

Afghanistan announces muslim eid holiday ceasefire with Taliban

Afghan President Ashraf Ghani on Sunday announced a ceasefire with Taliban insurgents from Monday to mark the ...

MH17 crash site still unsafe for investigators: Dutch

The site in eastern Ukraine where flight MH17 crashed two months ago is still too unsafe for investigators to resume ...

Israel has begun withdrawing some troops from Gaza: Army

Israel has begun withdrawing some ground troops from the Gaza Strip and redeploying others but operations against ...

UN reinforcements start arriving in S. Sudan

The first United Nations (UN) peacekeeping reinforcements arrived Friday in South Sudan, where the government is said ...

Fighting rages in South Sudan oil regions

Heavy fighting between government forces and rebels was raging Thursday in South Sudans key oil-producing north, ...

US condemns Nigeria violence

The United States Monday condemned clashes between troops and Islamist militants in northeastern Nigeria which saw ...

187 dead, 77 injured after fierce Nigeria clashes

Heavy fighting between Nigerian troops and suspected Islamist insurgents has killed 187 people and injured 77 others, ...

More than 36,000 killed in Syria conflict: Watchdog

More than 36,000 people have been killed since the outbreak of Syria`s anti-regime revolt in March 2011, with an ...

Lebanese pm calls for end to Tripoli clashes

Lebanese Prime Minister Najib Mikati called Tuesday on the security forces to put an end to the ongoing clashes in the ...

At least 22 militants killed in Yemeni fighting

At least 22 Islamist militants were killed in overnight clashes and an air strike in southern Yemen, where government ...

Ranger, two soldiers killed in Congo gorilla park

A ranger and two soldiers were killed in Democratic Republic of Congo`s Virunga national park as thousands fled fierce ...

11 die in Qaeda attack on Yemen barracks

Eleven people were killed, including five soldiers, after Al-Qaeda militants launched an attack on an army barracks in ...

Clashes in west Libya kill four: local official

Heavy fighting between gunmen in western Libya on Tuesday killed four people and left several more wounded, a local ...

Qaeda gunmen kill 7 police in Yemen: security

Al-Qaeda militants killed seven policemen Sunday in an attack on a checkpoint in Yemen`s southeast, a security ...

Syria clashes near Damascus, league eyes UN

Fierce clashes broke out near the Syrian capital on Sunday as President Bashar al-Assad`s opponents sought to crank up ...