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Two Burmese military fighter jets again dropped bombs on KIA positions at Dawi Post and Chyahkya Bum in Danai Township on Jan 31 at 2:13 pm.
Similarly, two fighter jets dropped bombs on Hka Shang and Hka Chyang Hku in Mansi Township in southern Kachin state on the same day at around 3:20 pm.
Militants attacked an Afghan army unit guarding a military academy in the capital of Kabul on Monday, killing at least 11 soldiers and wounding 16, officials said. Hours later, the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) affiliate in the country claimed responsibility for the assault.
It was the latest in a wave of relentless violence in Kabul this month unleashed by the Taliban and rival ISIS militants that has killed scores and left hundreds wounded.
A suicide car bombing in Afghanistan on Saturday killed 95 and wounded more than 150 people near a police checkpoint in the country’s capital of Kabul, according to the Afghan Public Health Ministry.
The Taliban claimed responsibility for the attack, which comes one week after another Taliban-claimed attack on a luxury hotel in Kabul left at least 22 people dead.
Five gunmen stormed the offices of international aid agency Save the Children in Jalalabad, eastern Afghanistan, on Wednesday, killing at least five people and wounding 24. The assault lasted ten hours and was eventually claimed by the ISIS.
The London-based charity said it was “devastated” by the attack, and announced it was suspending all of its operations in Afghanistan immediately.
At least four gunmen stormed the Intercontinental Hotel in the Afghan capital on Saturday evening, triggering a shootout with security forces, officials said.
Interior Ministry spokesman Najib Danish said the hotel came under attack at around 9 p.m. Afghan Special Forces arrived at the hotel in response to the attack, Danish said.