Fighting between Burma government forces and the Kachin Independence Army continued yesterday in northern Shan state’s Mabein township, an area bordering Kachin state and the territory of KIA battalion 12 under 3rd brigade, the Kachin News Group has learned.

The clashes involved units from KIA battalions 12 and 27 and took place at Saga Nam Hkum near Je U village. Tuesday and Wednesday saw the Burma army repeatedly shell Mung Ding Pa village, according to a KIA officer based in the area. Yesterday one child was killed by a shell while four other villagers were injured, according to an individual who was able to speak to someone in the village.

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A military italian patrol has been attacked with shots of light weapons, mortars and rocket launchers near Shindand, in Afghanistan: the fire fight lasted almost half an hour.

No wounded between italians. Contingent command sources referred it. The attack occurred in the afternoon, at 3:30pm local hour (13 in Italy), at 5 kilometers at south of advanced operative base in Shindand, in the west of Afghanistan.

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Sources in the northern Afghan province of Badakhshan (see map), which borders neighbouring Tajikistan, report that Mujahideen of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan conducted a large-scale operation in the area which resulted in liberation the Manjan district, writes UmmaNews.

Scores of police and militants from theb Karzai’s puppet gang “Arbak” were eliminated during the offensive. The puppet district ringleader, so-called “governor” of Manjan, fled in an unknown direction. Mujahideen managed to capture at least 30 puppets.

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Despite progress in its transition to democracy, Myanmar has struggled to end all the ethnic insurgencies that have long divided the country.

Now the Kachin — the last of the insurgent groups that have been fighting the government — have that could end the conflict.

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The attack began Thursday with a suicide bomber detonating a car bomb outside the compound of militant commander Nabi Hanfi, followed by militants launching an assault with guns.

The attack killed at least 15 people.

Hanfi, who reportedly survived the attack, was the leader of an anti-Taliban militia he formed after breaking away from the Taliban in 2009. He had been battling the Pakistani Taliban in the Orakzai tribal area and had been supported by the Pakistani government, local sources reported.

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