The Indian army on Tuesday attacked insurgent groups along its border with Burma, days after the rebels killed 18 Indian soldiers in an ambush in the insurgency wracked remote northeast, a top army officer said.

Maj. Gen. Ranbir Singh, the officer, said the army was in communication with Burmese authorities on its operation and inflicted “significant casualties on the rebels.”

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Within three days of an ambush of an Indian Army convoy in Manipur leaving 18 soldiers dead, suspected militants from Naga outfit NSCN-K on Sunday attacked a camp of the paramilitary Assam Rifles in Arunachal Pradesh. Officials said there was no casualty in the attack.

Around 30 heavily armed militants started firing indiscriminately at the 1 Assam Rifles camp at Lazu in Tirap district in the early hours of Sunday, prompting retaliatory firing by the paramilitary personnel, an Assam Rifles spokesman said.

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At least 19 presumed militants, between them five commanders, have been killed yesterday evening during clashes with security forces along pak-afghan border.

Reports it army press office (Ispr).

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Officials say “intense fighting” is under way in northeast Afghanistan as government forces attempt to retake a district overrun by Taliban militants.

Shah Waliullah Adeeb, the acting governor of Badakhshan Province, said on June 7 that more than 10 militants and four security personnel were killed in clashes around Badakhshan’s Yamgan district.

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At least 20 Indian Army jawans were killed and several others were injured when suspected militants ambushed their convoy in Manipur’s Chandel district, an official said.

A team of 6 Dogra Regiment was on a routine road opening patrol.

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