Xinhua world news summary at 1530 GMT, May 29

A 26-year-old Syrian migrant who arrived on the Greek island of Lesvos this spring has just won an appeal against a decision that would lead to his return to Turkey.

The Service Asylum committee examining refugee appeals in Greece on second degree, ruled against sending him back to Turkey, said Stratis Skountianellis, a member of the Legal Service of the Greek Council for the Refugees, a Greek NGO offering pro bono legal aid to refugees. (Greece-Migrant)

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KIEV -- At least five government soldiers were killed and four others were wounded in eastern Ukraine in the past 24 hours amid rising confrontation with independence-seeking insurgents, officials said Sunday.

Insurgents have intensified their shelling of government positions in the past day, carrying out 30 attacks with small arms, grenade launchers and mortars. said Olexandr Motuzyanyk, a spokesman for the Ukrainian military. (Ukraine-Insurgents)

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PUL-E-KHUMRI, Afghanista -- Afghan forces backed by aircrafts had killed nine Taliban militants and injured more than a dozen others in Baghlan-e-Markazi district of the northern Baghlan province since Saturday, an army spokesman in the province, Brigadier Abdul Latif, said Sunday.

"Since Saturday morning, nine Taliban rebels have been killed and 13 others injured in Baghlan-e-Markazi district, leaving the insurgents to flee the area," Latif told reporters here. (Afghanistan-Taliban)

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DAMASCUS -- Over 6,000 people have fled areas in northern Syria as a result of the attacks by the Islamic State (IS) militants, a monitor group reported on Sunday.

The mass exodus was witnessed in the towns of Sheikh Issa, Mare' and other towns in the northern province of Aleppo, as a result of the IS attacks on these areas that are under the control of the U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF). (Syria-Refugees) Endi