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There were conflicting reports of casualties following a fierce clash between Taliban and Afghan security forces when rebels stormed police check posts in the Musa Qala district in southern Helmand province, provincial police chief said on Thursday.
Maj. Gen. Nabi Jan Malakhel told Pajhwok Afghan News that heavily-armed insurgents stormed police check posts in the Naway district on Wednesday night.
Fresh skirmishes have broken out between the Burma Army and the Kachin Independence Army (KIA), with local sources claiming over 100 villagers were displaced and hiding in the jungle near Hpakant.
Fighting began 20 miles east of the town on Monday when the Burma Army entered a KIA controlled area without advance warning, according to Lamai Gum Ja, a spokesman for the KIA-affiliated Kachin Peace Creation Group.
Pakistan s military says airstrikes have killed 20 suspected militants in a troubled northwestern tribal region near the Afghan border.
A statement Saturday said the strikes killed insurgents in the Datta Khel area of North Waziristan.
Dozens of Taliban insurgents attacked a police post in Afghanistan’s southern Helmand province, killing at least 17 policemen, police said on Saturday.
With US forces no longer providing air support for their Afghan allies, Taliban fighters are attacking government positions in large numbers this year with the aim of taking and holding territory in remote parts of the country.
Myanmar’s armed ethnic Kokang group declared a unilateral cease-fire with Myanmar forces on Thursday in a bid to end four months of hostilities with the national army along the Chinese border to bring stability to the region and prevent the clashes from disrupting general elections scheduled for later this year, an official with the group said.
“We have declared that we will not launch an offensive because people have been suffering over four months because of the war,” Tun Myat Linn, spokesman for the Myanmar National Democratic Alliance Army (MNDAA), the Kokang army, told RFA’s Myanmar Service.