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Twenty militants were killed and 14 wounded in a security forces’ strike in Khyber Agency early Friday morning.
The offensive took place in Teerah Valley when jet planes bombarded the militants hideout as a result 20 militants were killed and 14 wounded. Security forces also destroyed five hideouts of the militants.
Burmese government forces on Wednesday continued their ground offensive against the Kachin Independence Army (KIA) near the village of Nam Sang Yawng in Kachin State while supported by two fighter jets and two helicopter gunships, said Maj. Min Htay, the information officer of the All Burma Students Democratic Front (ABSDF) Northern Branch.
“Hostilities broke out this morning [Wednesday] when the Burmese army launched an assault from the direction of Nam Sang Yawng,” he said. “The fighting started at about 8 am. Then at 11:30, the aircraft attacked. Later, two helicopter gunships came and fired on us.”
Four fighter jets and two helicopters attacked Kachin Independence Army (KIA) positions near the Laiza headquarters capital on Friday. In the morning, military planes struck KIA positions in Lajayang - located less than 10 miles south of Laiza.
At the time of press it was unknown how many casualities resulted from the air strike. The day before government shelling near Lajayang killed one civilian and injured three others at Mankwi, according to Kachin Independence Organization (KIO) sources.
Two Pakistani soldiers have been killed and at least 22 others kidnapped today during an attack by talibans on 3 checkpoints at border of Peshawar. Dawn News Tv referred it.
Official sources have said that armed militants have destroyed two of checkpoints, seized arms and fired a vehicle and have seized another one before fleeing.
28 Taliban fighters and Haqqani network were killed in several military operations in the provinces of the country.
These fighters targeted by Afghan and NATO forces while carrying out terrorist activities in the vicinities of Kandahar, Logar, Ghazni, Sar-i-Pul and Nangarhar provinces.