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Militants belonging to the Pakistani Taliban and disguised in police uniforms launched an attack, late on Monday, on a prison in Dera Ismail Khan, a city in Pakistan’s Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa Province, and managed to free at least 247 prisoners.
Banned Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan, or TTP, used rocket-propelled grenades and machine guns to launch the attack on the prison, which is located near South Waziristan, Pakistan’s lawless tribal region along the border with Afghanistan, news reports said.
Gunmen attacked a coastguard checkpost in southwestern Pakistan on Saturday, killing at least seven officials and wounding seven others, officials said.
The incident happened in the Suntsar area of Gwadar district in Balochistan province at around 3 a.m.
Clashes have resumed between government troops and allied ethnic armed groups in northern Shan State, almost a month after the gunfire last stopped.
Fighting continued on Thursday evening at an outpost of the ethnic Ta’ang National Liberation Army (TNLA). Two days earlier, the TNLA and allied troops from the Kachin Independence Army (KIA) clashed with the government’s Light Infantry Battalion No. 506, which attacked their outposts in a KIA-controlled area.
A major military offensive was launched by Afghan national armed forces to curb a major plot by anti-government armed militant groups, who were looking to destabilize four provinces of Afghanistan.
The operation called “Simurgh” is the first major military operation conducted by Afghan national army in Azra district of eastern Logar province.
Seven people were killed when communist insurgents attacked a rural army outpost in the southern Philippines, the military said on Saturday.
Six rebels and a progovernment militiaman were killed while another militiaman was wounded during the five-hour gun battle on Friday, said the military, adding that the attack only ended after they deployed helicopter gun ships.