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Taliban terrorists claimed responsibility for two bomb blasts Monday near the Afghan Ministry of Defense in Kabul that killed nearly two dozen people.
Saleem Rasooli, head of Kabul hospitals, told CNN at least 24 people had been killed in the attack — which also injured 91 others.
Two bombs killed at least 13 people and wounded dozens outside a court complex in northwest Pakistan on Friday, a rescue official said, hours after militants killed two people in a Christian neighborhood in the same region.
Both attacks were claimed by Jamaat-ur-Ahrar, a breakaway Pakistani Taliban faction believed to be behind some of the past year’s deadliest attacks, including last month’s bombing of lawyers in the city of Quetta that killed 74 people.
Shan State Army-North troops on the front line in Shan State. (Photo: Kyaw Kha / The Irrawaddy)
The Burma Army and the Shan State Progress Party/Shan State Army-North (SSPP/SSA-N) clashed in northern Shan State on Sunday evening, just days before the start of the Union Peace Conference.
Fighting broke out as the Burma Army’s Light Infantry Battalions No. 33 and 147 marched toward the SSA-N’s Loilem outpost in Mongyang Township’s Tangyan village tract, but there were no casualties, said Major Sai Hsu, an SSPP/SSA-N spokesperson.
At least 15 members of the terrorist group Abu Sayyaf, including a sub-leader, were killed in two separate encounters in Patikul, Sulu on Friday, the Philippine Army said.
In a report released to the media, the PA’s Special Operations Command (SOCOM) said 15 bandits were killed in two separate clashes with the military—one erupted at about 6:15 a.m. Friday in Sitio Tubig Magkawas and another at noon in Sitio Pangi, both areas are situated between Barangay Langhub and Barangay Bungkaong in Patikul town.
An indefinite ceasefire between the communist rebels and the government takes effect today after their representatives signed a joint declaration in Norway to stop armed hostilities in preparation for talks to end once and for all the decades-long rebellion.
The declaration of the truce came almost simultaneously with the announcement of the release of three policemen by New People’s Army (NPA) rebels.