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Pakistan Air Force fighter jets bombed suspected terrorist hideouts in the tribal belt on the Afghan border on Thursday, killing at least 40 people, security officials said.
“At least 40 terrorists were killed in the precision strikes in the Mir Ali area,” one intelligence official told Reuters. “Six different locations were bombed.”
About 17 Taliban militants were killed while 16 others detained in operations carried out by Afghan security forces within the last 24 hours, the country’s Interior Ministry said Monday morning.
“Afghan National Police, army and the National Directorate for Security (NDS) launched several anti-terrorism joint operations in Nangarhar, Laghman, Zabul, Wardak, Khost, Paktika and Helmand provinces, killing 17 armed Taliban members and detaining 16 others over the past 24 hours,” the ministry said in a statement providing daily operational updates.
Two frontline posts controlled by the Kachin Independence Army (KIA) that severed as protection for the group’s Laiza headquarters were seized by Burma government troops after heavy clashes on Tuesday and Wednesday.
Ja Ing Yang and Hka U, both posts held by KIA battalion 18 under the group’s 5th Brigade, were attacked and then captured by the Burma Army, according to KIA frontline officers who declined to be quoted by name.
A column of Burma army troops took control of a post from the Kachin Independence Army (KIA) near Dagaw located on the Bhamo to Loije road this morning, a KIA officer told the Kachin News Group.
Over 50 Burmese took part in the unexpected attack on Dagaw post at about 8:30 am. The attack occurred when the six KIA soldiers guarding the post were having breakfast, said Battalion 1 commander Major Hpauyam Yaw Htung.
At least 37 Islamic fighters have been killed in a two-day offensive against insurgents opposed to a new peace deal between the government and the main Muslim rebel group, military officials said Wednesday.
President Benigno Aquino III said the military launched the assault to protect villages after Bangsamoro Islamic Freedom Movement fighters staged attacks in southern Maguindanao province. Troops were aiming “to seriously degrade their abilities to again act as spoilers,” Aquino told reporters.