At least four soldiers and nine militants were killed during an operation on Saturday in Pakistan’s restive tribal region where the army is fighting a major offensive against Taliban insurgents.

Pakistan’s military said the incident took place in the Pre Ghar area on the border between North and South Waziristan tribal regions.

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A battle took place between KIA’s 7th Battalion troops and a combined force of Burmese Army troops under 33rd Light Infantry Division and Putao-based 46th and 138th Light Infantry Regiments on the road between Sumpra Bum and Mali Yang on July 6.

In northern Shan State, KIA’s 38th Battalion troops engaged in a battle against Burmese Army troops under 77th Light Infantry Division (LID) near Nam Jak village in Muse Township on July 5 at 8:30 am, reported KIA front line source.

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At least 49 militants affiliated with the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) terrorist group were killed in separate drone strikes in eastern Nangahar province.

According to the local government officials, the militants were killed in Achin district on Monday.

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Renewed fighting between government troops and ethnic Karen rebels in eastern Burma led to a temporary shutdown of the new Asia Highway on Thursday morning.

Clashes erupted around 5:30am between the Burma Army and the Democratic Karen Benevolent Army (DKBA), a splinter group born of the Karen National Liberation Army (KNLA), the southeastern ethnic state’s dominant rebel force.

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Fighters loyal to Islamic State have seized substantial territory in Afghanistan for the first time, witnesses and officials said, wresting areas in the east from rival Taliban insurgents in a new threat to stability.

Witnesses who fled fighting in Nangarhar province told Reuters that hundreds of insurgents pledging allegiance to Islamic State pushed out the Taliban, scorching opium poppy fields that help to fund the Taliban’s campaign to overthrow the Afghan government.

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