Clash between ISIS militants and talibani took place yesterday in Achin district in eastern Afghan province of Nangarhar, with a toll of six dead and ten injured. Khaama Press refers it today.

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Philippine authorities have captured a high-ranking leader of a key splinter militant group, a military spokesman confirmed Wednesday.

According to Maj. Filemon Tan, the spokesperson for the Philippine military’s Western Mindanao Command, Hassan Indal alias Abu Hazam, the vice-chairman for internal affairs of the Bangsamoro Islamic Freedom Movement (BIFM) and the 4th division commander of its armed wing, the Bangsamoro Islamic Freedom Fighters (BIFF), was arrested in his hideout in the village of Kalanganan, west of Cotabato City late Tuesday. His son, Ali Indal, also a BIFF member, was killed during the raid after resisting arrest.

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At least nine persons were killed when a huge explosion took place near Civil Lines area of Quetta on Saturday, officials said.

The outlawed Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) have claimed responsibility for the attack.

“The TTP’s TSG unity carried out the attack that targeted the convoy of security forces,” Taliban spokesperson, Mohammad Khorasani said in a statement.

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Three soldiers were killed in separate encounters with the leftist New People’s Army (NPA) in southern Philippine province of Compostela Valley, local military said Thursday.

Rhyan Batchar, public affairs office chief of the Army’s 10th Infantry Division, said that the operating troops of the 46th Infantry Battalion engaged the leftist rebels belonging to Pulang Bagani Command 3 of the Southern Mindanao Regional Committee in Pantukan town on Wednesday.

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A suicide bomber has killed 20 people at a police headquarters in the Afghan capital Kabul, officials say.

At least 29 others were wounded in the blast in the west of the city, the interior ministry said.

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