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Heavy fighting over Nagorno-Karabakh continued Thursday with Armenia and Azerbaijan trading blame for new attacks, hostilities that raised the threat of Turkey and Russia being drawn into the conflict.
Speaking in Moscow, Russian President Vladimir Putin said that according to the information Russia has acquired, the combined deaths from nearly four weeks of fighting over the region are nearing 5,000. Putin emphasized the need to negotiate a truce quickly.
Ten cops have died in clashes between the Karachi Police and the Pakistan Army, amid the reports that a ‘civil war-like situation’ is developing in the country.
According to a tweet by the International Herald, heavy fire was exchanged between the Sindh Police in Karachi and Pakistan Army, after the latter tried to take custody of a Superintendent of Police, Md. Aftab Anwar. Five Army officers had died in the ensuing firing.
Seven soldiers and five Taliban militants were killed during armed clashes in Imam Sahib district of Afghanistan’s northern Kunduz province Saturday night, a local official confirmed on Sunday.
“The clashes erupted after an unknown number of militants armed with guns and rocket-propelled grenades attack security checkpoints of the Afghan National Defense and Security Forces (ANDSF) in Ab Froshan and Bakhmal Kocha localities on outskirts of the district at mid-night Saturday,” district chief Mahbubullah Sayyedi told Xinhua.
Armenian armed forces have launched a missile attack on Azerbaijan’s second-largest city Ganja and Mingacevir.
The missile strikes late on Friday hit busy areas in and around the city centre of Ganja, where casualties have been reported.
At least seven dead bodies were recovered from debris after what Baku described as shelling of Ganja conducted by the Armenian forces, one day after a ceasefire between the two sides had been due to take effect, Azerbaijan’s foreign ministry said on Sunday.