Six 29 Assam Rifles personnel were killed in an ambush laid by militants in Manipur’s Chandel district near the Indo-Myanmar border.

The convey was attacked by heavily armed militants around 1 PM in Joupi Hengshi area.

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Taliban leader Mullah Akhtar Mansour has been killed in a US drone strike, a senior commander with the militant group has said.

Mullah Abdul Rauf told The Associated Press on Sunday that Mansour died in the strike late Friday night.

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Pakistani officials say six Islamic militants were killed ahead of a planned attack on a university in the central Panjub Province.

Counterterrorism police officials said on May 20 that a group of militants was in the district of Dera Ghazi Khan near the city of Multan when police attacked them and engaged in a shoot-out.

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The Burma Army helped by Border Guard Force troops (BGF) fought with a Democratic Karen Benevolent Army (DKBA)’s splinter group for over two hours in Pyar Pin Village, Kawkareik Township, Karen State at 5am on 11 May.

A BGF major who did not want to be named said that two bombs exploded in the early hours of 11 May, one at 12.45am and the other at 1.55am. At 5.30am the DKBA splinter group, led by Bo Nar Ma, then started firing at the joint Burma Army and BGF forces from a hill near Pyar Pin Village.

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Maoists owing allegiance to Revolutionary Communist Centre ( RCC ), splinter group of CPI (Maoist), raided the camp office of a private road construction company located in Belaganj police station area of the district shortly before midnight on Tuesday. The heavily armed Maoists numbering more than a dozen made the company staff captive at gun-point.

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