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At least 25 people were killed in troubled southwest Pakistan on Saturday when militants blew up a bus carrying women students and attacked a hospital treating survivors, officials said.
A bomb attack on a bus in Quetta, capital of the restive Baluchistan province, killed 14 women students, and another 11 people died in a blast at a city hospital around 90 minutes later.
Forces loyal to the Kachin Independence Organization (KIO) and Burma’s military clashed several times over the past week in northern Shan state according to KIO sources. These are the first recorded clashes since the two sides met for peace talks late last month in the Kachin state capital Myitkyina.
On Monday June 10th fighting took place near Hpai Kawng village in the Pangsai (Kyukok) region. This fighting involved Section 5 of the KIO’s local civilian militia force known as the Mungshawa Hpyen Hpung (MHH) and government forces from Infantry Battalion 125.
Clashes between Afghan security forces and militants ended in capital Kabul after all attackers including two suicide bombers and five militants were shot dead.
Deputy security chief for Kabul security commandment Gen. Daud Amin said all militants were shot dead by Afghan security forces.
The clashes started around 4:30am after a suicide bomber detonated his explosives near Kabul airport which triggered gun battle.
The Georgian military says six of its soldiers have been killed in a suicide attack in southern Afghanistan.
General Irakli Dzneladze, chief of the Georgian Army Joint Staff, said during a news conference in Tbilisi that the troops were killed when militants blew up a truck packed with explosives outside their base in restive Helmand Province.
Dzneladze said several soldiers were also injured.
According to officials, 6 Taliban militants were killed in a twin air-attack by ISAF choppers on Sunday morning in Zurmat district of Paktia.
A press release by Afghan National Army press office in Gardez says two groups of Taliban militants who were involved in destructive operations came under ISAF air attacks where 6 militants were killed.
The statement added that these militants were also suspected to be members of Haqqani Network.