 | Wars in the World |
Daily News on Wars in the World and on New States
| FOLLOW US ON: FACEBOOK X FLIPBOARD TELEGRAM |
Bloody clashes between Daesh and Taliban fighters have left more than 120 dead on both sides over the past three days in Afghanistan’s northern Jawzjan province, officials said Thursday.
At least 72 Taliban and 52 Daesh fighters were killed in the clashes that took place in Qushtepa and Darzab districts while around 100 others, including 60 Taliban fighters, were injured, spokesman for Jawzjan governor Mohammad Reza and provincial council Abdul Qadeer Maleya told dpa.
Twelve Myanmar Army troops and one Restoration Council of Shan State soldier have been killed in this week’s armed clashes in Mong Kung Township, according to separate reports from the organization and an aligned media outlet on Friday. An undisclosed number of RCSS troops have been injured, according to a spokesperson for the group.
Four days of fighting in Mong Kung have also forced hundreds of ethnic Shan to flee their villages, according to local sources.
A suicide bomber has killed at least 128 people at a campaign rally in south-western Pakistan - the deadliest attack in the country since 2014.
A local candidate was among the dead in the Mastung town, police say. So-called Islamic State (IS) claimed the attack.
At least 23 soldiers were killed and 13 wounded in clashes in Afghanistan’s northern province of Kunduz Wednesday night, a local official said Thursday.
“Taliban militants stormed joint security checkpoints in Qarluq locality of Archi district at midnight. The clashes lasted for hours and caused six national army and local police personnel killed,” district Governor Nasruddin Nazari told Xinhua.
Twelve members of the Bangsamoro Islamic Freedom Fighters were killed in a series of clashes in the municipality of Shariff Saydona Mustapha in Maguindanao, a regional military spokesperson said Tuesday.
Armed Forces Western Mindanao Command spokesperson Lieutenant Colonel Gerry Besana said the BIFF members under Commander Bungos were killed last Sunday at Sitio Pandan and Sitio Mungkas in Barangay Malingao.