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A series of airstrikes killed 33 militants of Taliban and ISIS Khurasan groups in Nangarhar, Helmand and Kandahar provinces in the past 24 hours.
The military officials said Friday an airstrike killed 11 militants of ISIS Khurasan group in Deh Bala district of Nangarhar province.
Suspected separatist insurgents killed at least 15 and wounded four village defence volunteers in a late-night shooting at a security checkpoint in Thailand’s Muslim-majority south, security officials said.
The attackers in southern Yala province also used explosives and scattered nails on roads to delay pursuers late last night in what authorities described as the biggest gun attack in years.
At least 10 people were killed when Taliban insurgents attacked a security convoy in northern Afghanistan, an official confirmed on Sunday.
The ambush took place in Nusai district of the remote northern province of Badakhshan bordering Tajikistan, police spokesman Sanaullah Ruhani told Anadolu Agency.
Forces belonging to the Burma Army and the Kachin Independence Army (KIA) engaged in their first battle in Kachin State in months in Mohnyin Township this week.
Col Naw Bu, who is in charge of the Kachin Independence Organization’s information department, told NMG that there had been no fighting in the state or around nine months, but that it reignited in the second week of October.
The army fought with Restoration Council of Shan State/ Shan State Army (RCSS/SSA) in Naunghe village tract, Mongpan Township, Shan State (South) on October 15, according to a report from Tai Freedom news agency owned by the RCSS.
The report, quoting a field report from the RCSS, said the RCSS forces clashed with the army, who are intruding in their area.