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At least 14 security personnel were killed in an attack by militants belonging to the Afghanistan’s insurgent group, Taliban in Helmand province.
Tolo News quoted Helmand Governor Hayatullah Hayat as saying that the security force members were on an operation in a remote area of the province to arrest drug smugglers when they were attacked by the militant group on Thursday.
Clashes broke out on Tuesday night between members of the Northern Alliance armed groups the Ta’ang National Liberation Army (TNLA) and the Shan State Army-North (SSA-N) in Namtu Township, according to local sources.
Two army officers from the SSA-N, the armed wing of the Shan State Progressive Party (SSPP), told The Irrawaddy that fighting continued throughout the night.
Clashes along the boundary of South Cotabato and Sultan Kudarat provinces on Monday left seven communist rebels and two soldiers dead.
The series of encounters involved New People’s Army guerrillas and personnel of the Army’s 33rd and 27th Infantry Battalions.
Fifteen alleged members of the New People’s Army were killed while three others were wounded in two separate encounters with government troops in Nasugbu town Tuesday evening, police said.
Batangas police director Senior Superintendent Alden Delvo said joint elements of the 730th Combat Group of the Philippine Airforce, Batangas and Nasugbu police acted on a phone call revealing that armed men were seen at Sitio Pinamintasan in Barangay Aya, Nasugbu.
Clashes between the Tatmadaw and the Arakan Army (AA) have escalated in Paletwa township in Chin State, according to a statement from the ethnic armed group’s Facebook page on Sunday.
The Myanmar Times was not able to get comment from the Tatmadaw or the government about the armed ethnic group’s claim but on November 10, the Tatmadaw said it is conducting military operations in the area in the aftermath of the Arakan Army attack on one motorboat carrying civilians and another motorboat loaded with Tatmadaw members on November 8.