The Taliban has claimed responsibility for Friday’s coordinated attack on a NATO base in Kabul which left nine people dead.

At least one NATO service member and eight foreign civil contractors died after Taliban suicide bombers and gunmen stormed the base late on Friday night.

According to the country’s interior ministry, one of the four attackers detonated his explosive-laden car at the gate of the base, paving the way for the remaining assailants to storm the compound.

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India’s government has signed a peace deal with a leading Naga separatist group, bringing to an end one of the country’s oldest insurgencies.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi described the accord between his government and the National Socialist Council of Nagaland as “historic”.

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More than 150 suspected militants have been killed on various fronts across Afghanistan during the last 48 hours, the Afghan security establishment announced on Saturday.

According to the Ministry of Defense, a total of 127 suspected militants were killed across the country in the past 48 hours. Another 16 militants were reported dead by the Ministry of Interior.

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Fourteen people were wounded in an attack Friday, July 31, by suspected rebels wielding grenade launchers and automatic weapons in Thailand’s war-torn Muslim-majority south, officials said.

The early morning attack on village security volunteers, a local protection force armed by the state against the rebels, in Yala province left four seriously wounded, police told AFP.

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Taliban leader Mullah Mohammed Omar died more than two years ago in a hospital in Pakistan of an unknown illness, a senior Afghan intelligence agency official told CNN on condition of anonymity Wednesday.

Separately, an adviser to the country’s chief executive said Mullah Omar is believed to be dead.

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