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It may have already been abundantly clear that Matteo Renzi is in full campaign mode ahead of his do-or-die December 4 referendum, after his attacks on the EU at the end of this month’s Bratislava summit.
Read more(B2) 400 militaires étaient réunis pour l’exercice Euretex 2016 de l’Eurocorps qui vient de se dérouler du 22 au 28 septembre au camp militaire du Valdahon.
Venus de six pays européens, les unités françaises, allemandes, belges, luxembourgeoises, espagnoles et polonaises du génie ont travaillé conjointement pour tester et améliorer l’interopérabilité et la coopération. Un objectif non déclaré : se préparer à être déployé sur le terrain. Au programme : la détection des engins explosifs improvisés — avec l’intervention d’une unité NEDEX (neutralisation, enlèvement, destruction des explosifs), la lutte contre les menaces chimiques, biologiques, radiologiques et nucléaires (CBRN), l’ouverture de bâtiments et d’itinéraires piégés, et une opération de franchissement de coupure humide.
Un point intéressant : la présence de militaires américains. 40 soldats de l’US Army ont pris part à tous les exercices et manœuvres, avec comme objectif de développer la coopération tactique entre les unités européennes et le partenaire outre-atlantique.
(Lucas Millet) Lire aussi :The Syrian government forces, led by the Tiger Forces, have launched a counter-attack against Jabhat Fatah al-Sham (formerly Jabhat al-Nusra), Jund al-Aqsa (a terrorist group with links to Al Qaeda and Jabhat al-Nusra) and the Free Syrian Army in the northern part of Hama province where the joint terrorist forces seized few sites yesterday.
The loyalists have entered the villages of Talisiyah and Sha`tha controlled by terrorists and engaged the terrorist alliance in the area of Ma’ardas. Clashes have been also ongoing in the areas east of Sha`tha.
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AlMasdarNews reports: The Syrian Arab Army’s Republican Guard, backed by Liwaa Al-Quds (Palestinian paramilitary), launched their second large-scale assault at the Handarat Refugee Camp today, targeting the eastern neighborhoods that are under Fatah Halab’s control.
According to local sources in northern Aleppo, the Syrian Armed Forces and Liwaa Al-Quds entered the Handarat Camp after securing the Shaher District, which is located at the eastern sector of this former refugee camp.
Intense clashes are ongoing inside the camp, as the Syrian Armed Forces and Liwaa Al-Quds attempt to reestablish control over this key district in Aleppo’s northern sector.
Handarat Camp was initially recaptured by Liwaa Al-Quds last week; however; a swift counter-offensive by the jihadist rebels forced the pro-government forces to withdraw east towards the nearby Bureijj District.
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Pakistan Air Force jets landing and taking off from highways near Lahore:
Kiev continues to intensify its artillery groups near the contact line with Donbass and fire territories of the Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR).
Kiev has intensified its artillery group near Mariupol and Yasinovataya with tanks, howitzers and self-propelled guns, Deputy Commander of the Operational Command of the Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR), Eduard Basurin, said at a briefing on Tuesday.
“Our intelligence continues to reveal facts of presence of prohibited weapons of the Ukrainian Armed Forces along the contact line,” Basurin said.
According to the Deputy Commander, three self-propelled guns, two tanks and two trucks with ammunition were discovered in the village of Granitnoye near Telmanovo, half a kilometer from the front. Moving of the nine Giatsint-B field guns was spotted near Yasinovataya, on the Yasnobrodovsky landfill.
“In addition, our intelligence spotted supply of ammunition to the settlements of Novognatovka, Nikolaevka, Marinka, Zarya and Rybinskoye,” Basurin added.
According to Basurin, over the past day, the Ukrainian Armed Forces fired frontline territories of the DPR 46 times. The villages of Zaytsevo near Gorlovka, Aleksandrovka and Trudovskiye to the west of the capital, Novolaspa in the area of Telmanovskiy, the territory of Dokuchaevsk, suburbs of Yasinovataya and the Mayorsk checkpoint near Zaytsevo were under the enemy fire.
“Nineteen 82 mm and 120 mm shells were fired from prohibited weapons by the enemy. In addition, fire was opened from grenade launchers and light weapons,” Basurin pointed out.
Later on Tuesday, it was reported that Spartak village on the northern outskirts of Donetsk was fired by Ukrainian military, who used heavy mortars.
According to the DAN news agency, citing a source in power-wielding agencies of the DPR, the Ukrainian side used 82 mm and 120 mm mortars, as well as a heavy machine gun. The source also added that two hours before to start the shelling, surroundings of the industrial zone near Yasinovataya were fired with a tank by units of the Ukrainian Army.
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