Afghan security officials say more than two dozen people have been killed and several others injured as government forces and members of the Taliban militant group engaged in fierce clashes in the country’s central province of Uruzgan.

Aminullah Khaliqi, governor of Deh Rawood district, said on Wednesday that at least 10 members of security forces as well as 15 Taliban militants have been killed during skirmishes in the area, located 400 kilometers (248 miles) southwest of the capital, Kabul, over the past few days.

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Indian security forces claimed to have killed three terrorists out of 10-member fidayeen group consisting of belonging to Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) and Jaish-e-Mohammed that have sneaked into India from the border areas of Gujarat to carry out multiple strikes in the country.

Security officials received a tip off about the location of 10 terrorists.

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Almost 70 Taliban fighters have been killed during factional infighting within the movement in Afghanistan’s western Herat province, local media reported Wednesday.

Two senior regional leaders were among the 67 militants killed during clashes between Taliban factions, the Khaama Press newspaper reported.

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At least 13 people, including two police officers and two children, were killed in a suicide attack Monday in Pakistan’s northwestern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, police said.

More than a dozen other people were injured in the attack in the Charsadda District.

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A spokesperson for the Arakan Army claimed Friday that the ethnic armed group destroyed two vehicles belonging to Burma’s military using rocket-propelled grenades, killing some 30 soldiers from the Buthidaung-based Light Infantry Battalion No. 565 in the attack.

The strike, according to Khine Thu Kha of the Arakan Army, occurred on Thursday evening near Wanet Yon village, about 18 miles northeast of Buthidaung town in Arakan State.

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