Syrian troops forced rebels to abandon a battered Damascus suburb yesterday in the latest battle of an intensifying civil war that the UN refugee agency said had prompted more than 200,000 people to flee the country.
Four people were killed and 15 wounded in overnight gun battles in the Lebanese city of Tripoli in a second night of fighting between Sunni and Alawite gunmen loyal to different sides in the war in neighbouring Syria, a military source said today.
Rebels began to push into a strategic town in Syria's central Hama province today and laid siege to at least one town dominated by President Bashar al-Assad's minority sect, activists said.
Explosions and gunfire rocked Tripoli overnight, after days of battlefield defeats left Muammar Gaddafi's government and troops penned ever more tightly in the besieged capital by a rebel advance.
Syria has accepted a ceasefire and peace plan drawn up by UN and Arab League special envoy Kofi Annan, his spokesman said today, even as Syrian troops thrust into Lebanon to battle rebels who had taken refuge there.
A week of fighting between rival tribes deep in Libya's south has killed 147 people, the government said today, but it said it had brokered a fresh ceasefire agreement between the two sides.
Thai and Cambodian soldiers fought with rocket-propelled grenades and guns on their disputed border in a clash that killed six soldiers in the first major flare-up since a shaky ceasefire in February.
A second day of fighting between Thai and Cambodian troops killed at least four soldiers, bringing the two-day death toll to 11, the worst bloodshed since the United Nations called for a ceasefire in February.
Libya's rebel-held city of Misrata won no respite from two months of bitter siege as Muammar Gaddafi's forces bombarded the city and battled rebel fighters, despite pulling out of the city centre.
Fighting has erupted in western Ivory Coast between forces loyal to incumbent Laurent Gbagbo and northern rebels who have backed his rival Alassane Ouattara, army and United Nations peacekeeping officials said.
Soldiers backing Alassane Ouattara met stiff resistance from incumbent Laurent Gbagbo's fighters in Ivory Coast's main city of Abidjan today as the two sides fought for control of the West African country.
Sylvester Stallone, Arnold Schwarzenegger and their fellow aging action heroes are back in fighting form for new movie "The Expendables 2," thrilling crowds at the giant Comic-Con pop culture event with footage from the upcoming film.