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According to recent reports, at least 126 mostly students were killed and dozens others injured when militants attacked an army-run school situated on Warsak Road in Peshawar Tuesday. ISPR now confirms that all terrorists have been killed.
Five or six militants wearing military uniforms entered the Army Public School in the city of Peshawar, a source at the school told.
TNLA troops on the march in northern Shan State’s Kyauk Mae Township. (Photo: JPaing / The Irrawaddy)
Conflict between government troops and armed rebels left at least seven Burmese soldiers dead and another 20 injured in eastern Burma late last week, state media reported on Monday.
State-owned daily Global New Light of Myanmar said the clash was prompted by a rebel “ambush” on government columns in Kunlong Township, located in northern Shan State near the border with China. The deadly incident took place on Dec. 10, the report said.
Afghan police said Taliban militants have shot dead at least 12 workers clearing mines in the southern Helmand Province on December 13.
Farid Ahmad Obaid, a spokesman for the provincial police chief, said the attack happened near the former British military base of Camp Bastion.
The Afghan security forces in clearance operations jointly conducting by Afghan National Police and personnel of the National Directorate of Security in the provinces of the country, killed 15 rebels wounded 3 and arrested 4 in past 24 hours.
A statement issued by the ministry of interior states that the operations were conducted in Kandahar, Logar, Khost, Uruzgan, Maidan-Wardak, Paktika, Ghazni, Kunduz, Baghlan, Nooristan and Kunar provinces.
Militants in the disputed territory of Kashmir attacked an Indian army camp Friday, triggering a fierce gunbattle that left 11 Indian soldiers and six suspected assailants dead, officials said.
At least three other deadly attacks were launched elsewhere Friday in the region, where local elections were being held through December.