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Four heavily-armed suicide bombers attacked a military facility in northwestern Pakistan on Saturday and killed two soldiers, but failed to storm a busy mosque inside, the army said.
A splinter group of the Pakistani Taliban, Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan Jamaat-ur-Ahrar, claimed responsibility for the attack on Ghalani Camp in Mohmand Agency that is part of the lawless Federally Administered Tribal Areas bordering Afghanistan.
Pakistan’s air force chief on Thursday warned archrival India against escalating the dispute over Kashmir into full-scale war, urging New Delhi to exercise restraint.
Marshal Sohail Aman’s warning came as tensions are soaring between Islamabad and New Delhi over the contested Himalayan territory where Pakistan said Indian fire on Wednesday killed 12 civilians and three soldiers — the deadliest incident in weeks of border clashes.
Ethnic armed groups launched three attacks on Burma Army and police posts in northern Shan State’s Muse Township early Sunday morning.
Ta’ang National Liberation Army (TNLA) secretary Col. Tar Bong Kyaw told The Irrawaddy on Sunday that two TNLA battalions under Brigade 5 attacked border police and Burma Army posts in Muse Economic Zone and that five police were wounded and guns were seized.
At least 10 militants belonging to a Daesh-linked rebel group died in clashes with the Philippine army, military sources said on Friday.
Four soldiers also lost their lives in the violence which broke out in the troubled Sulu province of the Muslim south, officials said.
Myanmar’s Rakhine state erupted in violence over the weekend with more than 30 insurgents killed, the military said, as fears grow for the strife-torn region.
Northern Rakhine, which is home to the Muslim Rohingya minority and borders Bangladesh, has been under military lockdown ever since surprise raids on border posts killed nine police last month.