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 by Staff Writers Bogota (AFP) Aug 21, 2018
Colombia issued a strong protest Tuesday over what it said was a border incursion by Venezuelan helicopters and troops over the weekend. The government of President Ivan Duque said it sent a strongly-worded protest to the Venezuelan ambassador over what it claimed was a "violation of Colombia's sovereignty" in Norte Santander department on Sunday. "Two helicopters, identified with the initials of the Bolivarian National Guard and about 30 armed personnel belonging to the Bolivarian National Armed Forces of Venezuela" landed in the border region of Tibu, the foreign ministry said. The ministry said it sent a note "expressing the strongest protest" to the Venezuelan ambassador in Bogota. The South American neighbors have locked horns in recent years over similar incidents along their 2,200-kilometer (1,370-mile) border crisscrossed by guerrillas and drug traffickers. The most recent incident was in November last year and also involved the Tibu region. Like his predecessor Juan Manuel Santos, Duque has branded Venezuela a "dictatorship" under President Nicolas Maduro. Earlier this month, Maduro accused Santos of being behind an alleged attempt to assassinate him during a military parade in Caracas. Hundreds of thousands of Venezuelans fleeing the economic crisis in their home country have taken refuge in Colombia, which Maduro has also accused of sheltering his opponents. Colombia urged Peru and Ecuador to coordinate their immigration policies to deal with an influx of Venezuelan migrants.
Air strikes kill 18 IS fighters in Syria: monitor Beirut (AFP) Aug 17, 2018 Air strikes on a holdout of the Islamic State group in Syria near the Iraqi border have killed 18 jihadists, including a senior Iraqi commander, a monitor said Friday. Those killed late Thursday in the village of Sousa in the eastern province of Deir Ezzor were mostly foreigners, said the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights. The Britain-based monitor, which relies on sources inside Syria for its information, was unable to say if the strikes were carried out by a US-led coalition fighting IS or I ... read more
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