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Police in India say they have killed at least 24 Maoist rebels in the eastern state of Orissa.
One police officer was killed and another injured in the gunfight that followed in a forest straddling the border between Orissa and Andhra Pradesh states.
The region has seen a long-running insurgency by Maoists.
Casualties were reported in fighting between a splinter group of the Democratic Karen Benevolent Army (DKBA) and a joint force of the Burma Army and the allied Border Guard Force (BGF) on Wednesday in Kawkareik Township of Karen State.
“During the attack, four of our soldiers died,” Maj Saw San Aung, a leader of the DKBA splinter group—which calls itself the Democratic Karen Buddhist Army—told The Irrawaddy on Thursday. “The fighting lasted over 30 minutes and we heard that one civilian was injured.”
Myanmar has said 30 guerilla fighters have been killed in clashes over the weekend in the restive Rakhine state.
Reports had emerged last week about clashes in the border region in northwestern Myanmar between government forces and armed militants.
“We now have 30 insurgents dead and 29 captured alive,” national police chief Zaw said in capital Naypyidaw on Monday, Radio Free Asia reported.
Several gunmen opened fire at the Imam Ali Shrine in Afghanistan’s capital Kabul late on Tuesday night, killing at least 14 people and wounding 36 others. The Imam Ali shrine is in the vicinity of the western Karte Sakhi area of the city.
Khamma News quoted Ministry of Interior spokesman Sediq Sediqi, as saying that the area has been cleared and the last attacker was shot dead. Sediqi further added that the number of casualties will be released later.
Taliban fighters have captured a police station in Lashkargah, the capital of southern Helmand province, a reliable source said on Monday.
One security official, who wished to go unnamed, told Pajhwok Afghan News the Taliban captured the post before noon in the limits of the 2nd police district. He said some policemen were likely killed and wound.