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Heavy clashes have been reported between the Afghan national security forces and the anti-government armed militants in eastern Nuristan province of Afghanistan.
According to local government officials, clashes started on Tuesday after scores of militants launched attacks on security check posts in Du-Aab district.
Armed militants attacked Pakistan Air Force’s Samungli Air Base in Quetta, the capital of volatile Balochistan province, on Thursday night, an official said.
Security forces killed six militants, while thwarting an attack at Samungli Air Base in Quetta.
Armed clashes between government forces and the Kachin Independence Army (KIA) broke out twice over the past few days, according to KIA officials and local residents. The KIA is the armed wing of the Kachin Independence Organization (KIO), who has been in conflict with the central government since a 17 year ceasefire ended in June 2011.
The clashes which first broke out on Friday August 8th and lasted for more than an hour near, took place at Sabaw Maw, a ruby mine located in territory controlled by KIA battalion 6 in the jade rich Hpakan Township. The fighting began when a column of Burmese troops entered the mine area, according to a KIA officer who spoke to the Kachin News Group (www.kachinnews.com) on condition of anonymity.
At least 30 suspected militants were killed and six of their hideouts destroyed in fresh air strikes carried out by fighter jets in Datta Khel, Marsikhel, and Kamsham areas of North Waziristan tribal region, the ISPR sources said.
However, these claims could not be independently verified as journalists have limited access to the restive tribal agency.
As the Israeli military aggression against Gaza Strip entered its twenty third day, at least 115 Palestinians, including children and women, were killed early Tuesday, and around 220 were injured, bringing the death toll to at least 1231 and around 6720 injury cases.
Rescue teams recovered the body of Niveen al-Far from under the rubble of her house in al-Maghazi refugee camp in central Gaza, which was shelled at dawn and claimed the lives of three other Palestinians.