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A Philippine military spokeswoman says Christmas attacks by Muslim rebels against Christian communities in the country’s volatile south have left at least 14 people dead.
Regional military spokeswoman Capt. Joan Petinglay says the dead included nine Christian villagers gunned down by Bangsamoro Islamic Freedom Fighters insurgents and at least five rebels killed by government forces in clashes in the provinces of Sultan Kudarat, Maguindanao and North Cotabato.
Fighting continues across Afghanistan’s Helmand province as Taliban forces overrun the town of Sangin. But officials deny that police and government buildings in the district centre have fallen to the insurgents.
Talking to reporters in the Afghan capital Kabul, Masoom Stanekzai, the country’s acting Defense Minister, said the situation is “manageable:”
Taliban forces have taken almost full control of a key district in Afghanistan’s southern Helmand province after several days of fierce fighting, a police official told CNN on Monday.
The Taliban took over the entire district except for the police chief’s compound and another compound where a battalion of Afghan National Army is based in, according to Mohammad Dawood, the police chief of Sangin district in the province.
The Afghan national security forces have retaken control of Khanshin district in southern Helmand province of Afghanistan, security officials said Friday.
The Ministry of Interior (MoI) officials announced earlier today that the Afghan forces seized control of Khanshin district from Taliban militants this morning.
Pakistani fighter jets killed 23 militants on Friday (Dec 18) in airstrikes carried out in the country’s remote tribal belt near the Afghan border, the military said in a statement.
The strikes were in the Shawal area of North Waziristan and Khyber tribal district, it said. “As a result of precise air strikes, six terrorists’ hideouts were destroyed in which 23 terrorists were killed and more than 10 injured,” the statement said.