The Burma Army has threatened renewed military offensives if the Shan State Progress Party/Shan State Army-North (SSPP/SSA-N) refuses to withdraw from two mountain posts bordering ethnic Wa territory, according to local sources.

A sergeant from the SSA-N told The Irrawaddy on the condition of anonymity that his armed group would not abandon these northern Shan State posts and that they would defend their territory in the event of a strike by government forces.

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A faction of the Movement of the Taliban in Pakistan, or TTP, claimed credit for two attacks in Karachi that targeted policemen as they guarded members of a polio vaccination team. The Movement of the Taliban in Pakistan has targeted polio vaccination teams in Pakistan’s major cities in the past.

Movement of the Taliban in Pakistan Jamaat-ul-Ahrar “accepts responsibility for the attack on police in Karachi,” Ihsanullah Ihsan, the official spokesman for the group, said in a statement that was emailed to The Long War Journal.

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A group of Taliban insurgents staged a bomb and gun attack in the Afghan capital Kabul Tuesday morning, killing at least 30 people and wounding more than 327, according officials.

The assault targeted a building, which officials say houses a special unit of the Afghan security force working under the Afghan spy agency and responsible for protecting government officials.

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At least forty-one suspect loyalists of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) terrorist group have been killed in an Afghan airstrike in eastern Nangarhar province in Afghanistan.

The Ministry of Defense (MoD) said the airstrike was carried out in Achin district around on Thursday night, reports TOLO News.

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At least 234 militants were killed or wounded in the latest raids of the Afghan National Security Forces in the past 24 hours.

The Ministry of Defense (MoD) said at least 110 militants were killed, 124 militants were wounded and 13 others were arrested during the operations.

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