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A Burma Army battalion and Arakan Army (AA) soldiers fought for around half an hour on Sunday afternoon near Rathedaung Township’s Kharu Chaung and Rakaung Chaung villages in Arakan State, but no casualties from either side were reported.
Wai Hun Aung of the Wunlark Development Foundation said that it took upward of an hour for the fighting to fully cease but that it was not as serious as previous incidents of conflict.
At least seven people, including the head of the Afghan National Directorate of Security (NDS) for Sancharak district of northern Sar-e-pul region, were killed during a Taliban ambush, TOLO news reported Monday, citing sources in local authorities.
The incident occurred early in the day, when the the head of the NDS for Sancharak was returning home from funerals.
“NDS head of Sancharak and an employee of the department, four soldiers and a child were killed,” security official Enayatullah Habibi said as quoted by TOLO news.
At least 57 Afghan policemen were killed and another 37 wounded during two days of clashes in Afghanistan’s southern Helmand province, said officials on Monday.
The 505 Bost zone police commander in Helmand, Maj. Gen. Asmatullah Dawlatzai told media that the clashes that erupted between security forces and Taliban rebels two days ago were still underway in Greshk and Nad Ali districts of the province.
The Philippines military says 22 members of a Daesh-linked group have been killed in a series of clashes with government troops in the predominantly Muslim south in the past three days.
Military spokesman Maj Filemon Tan Jr. said in a statement Saturday that the deaths occurred after the “beheading of two civilians in the area” of Lanao del Sur.
The Afghan Taliban on Wednesday confirmed that its former leader Mullah Akhtar Mansour was killed in a US drone strike last week and appointed a successor.
In a statement sent to media, the insurgent group said its new leader is Mullah Haibatullah Akhundzada, one of two Mansour’s deputies.