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KIA’s 9th Battalion troops on Tuesday fought against Burmese army’s 145th Light Infantry Regiment (LIR) troops at Mung Li Man Hkun in Kutkai Township at about 1 pm, said a KIA source.
On the same day, KIA’s 36th Battalion troops engage in a heavy battle against Burmese army’s 568th LIR troops at Bang Ya Yung village in northern Shan State at about 12:30 pm. No casualties have been reported on either side during the battle that lasted for an hour.
The two Koreas exchanged artillery fire across the western maritime border on Monday after the North staged a live-fire drill that sent artillery shells into southern waters and prompted the evacuation of South Korean islanders.
The North fired about 500 rounds of artillery shells into waters north of the Northern Limit Line (NLL) in the Yellow Sea from 12:15 p.m. to 3:30 p.m., the Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) said.
After a period of relative calm in Kachin and northern Shan State, fighting resumes on Monday in KIA-controlled area in northern Shan State.
A series of battles took place between KIA’s 34th Battalion troops and an unknown Burmese army column at Man Yan and Man Hkang area in Momeik Township, northern Shan State on Monday at 7:50 am and once again at 1 pm.
Muslim rebels belonging to the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) signed a peace deal with the Philippine government on Thursday aimed at ending decades-long strife in impoverished regions of resource-rich Mindanao.
More than 1,000 guests from various sectors of society witnessed the signing of the five-page Comprehensive Agreement on the Bangsamoro (CAB) by the panel members from the government and the MILF in Malacanang, a culmination of 17 years of hard negotiations, which even reached deadlock at some point.
A group of suicide bombers attacked a police headquarter in the first district of Jalalabad city in eastern Nangarhar province.
The incident took place early Thursday morning and several explosions were heard near the police station, while the insurgents exchanged fire with the Afghan security forces for several hours.