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Government troops clashed with hardline Muslim rebels opposed to the newly concluded peace deal with a main insurgent group and wounded at least two militants in ongoing fighting.
Regional Army Spokesman Col. Dickson Hermoso said police backed by troops were on the way to arrest commanders of the rebel Bangsamoro Islamic Freedom Fighters (BIFF) when the clash erupted Monday in a vast marshland of southern Maguindanao province.
At least three Taliban militants were killed and two others were injured during military operations by Afghan national security forces.
The interior ministry of Afghanistan following a statement, said the operations were conducted during the past 24 hours in Nangarhar, Laghman, Kandahar, Zabul, Ghazni and Helmand provinces of Afghanistan.
Miriam Coronel Ferrer, chairman of the government negotiating panel (L) and MILF Chief Negotiator Mohagher Iqbal (R) sign documents during a press conference at a hotel in Kuala Lumpur on January 25, 2014. AFP PHOTO
The Philippines and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) signed on Saturday the last of the four annexes to the Bangsamoro framework that seeks to end the conflict in Mindanao.
Peace negotiators also signed the addendum on Muslim territorial waters in the southern Philippines in the talks held in Malaysia.
A group of militants attacked an ISAF base in Zheri district of southern Kandahar province Monday, in which nine militants and a coalition soldier were killed, officials said.
Haji Jamal Agha, the district chief, told Pajhwok Afghan News the insurgents mounted attack on the ISAF base at around 11:00am. All the nine militants were killed by the ISAF forces.
A day after they shot dead five Hindi-speaking bus passengers in Kokrajhar district, National Democratic Front of Bodoland (Songbijit) rebels attacked Muslim villagers, killing one of them and injuring four others in the Panbari area of neigbouring Chirang district on Saturday evening.
Around the same time, a group of assailants killed Bishom Sharma, a Hindi-speaking barber, near his salon at Harisinga in Udalguri district. Police suspect the killers could be from the same militant outfit. Kokrajhar, Chirang and Udalguri districts are Bodoland Territorial Autonomous Districts.