Eritrea, Ethiopia Start Tigray Offensive, Dissident Group Says
- Four-pronged offensive began early on Thursday morning: TPLF
- US urges Ethiopia, Tigray to immediately end hostilities
Soldiers from the Ethiopian National Defence Force in Kombolcha, Ethiopia.
Photographer: Ammanuel Sileshi/AFP/Getty Images
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Ethiopian and Eritrean forces began an offensive in four areas in Ethiopia’s northern Tigray region, a senior member of the dissident Tigray People’s Liberation Front said, the latest indication that a truce in the Horn of Africa nation’s civil war is unraveling.
The attacks started early on Thursday morning in northwestern Tigray, Getachew Reda said on Twitter. Ethiopia and Eritrea are “coordinating their efforts to turn this into a regional conflagration. We are ready to defend ourselves,” he said.