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TTP chief Hakimullah Mehsud
Hakimullah Mehsud, the chief of the Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), was killed in a US drone strike in North Waziristan tribal agency on Friday, intelligence officials said.
Pakistani intelligence officials have reported to their higher-ups that the Pakistani Taliban supremo was leaving from a meeting at a mosque Dande Darpakhel area of North Waziristan when the drone targeted their vehicle.
Five armed Taliban including a commander of them were killed in a clash in Urozgan province the other day.
Mullah Hayatullah local commander of Tliban in Trenkot city was among the dead.
Another battle yesterday in Kachin State’s Mann Si Township between government troops and the Kachin Independence Army is making life more perilous for the thousands of families trapped by the conflict, a KIA officer told Mizzima.
Vice Major Joon Aung, commander of KIA Battalion (3), said that another clash erupted at 9:00 A.M. near Namt Lin Par village in the township in Ba-Maw District as three battalions of government troops totaling 300 soldiers advanced in the area.
Fighting between Burma government forces and the Kachin Independence Army continued yesterday in northern Shan state’s Mabein township, an area bordering Kachin state and the territory of KIA battalion 12 under 3rd brigade, the Kachin News Group has learned.
The clashes involved units from KIA battalions 12 and 27 and took place at Saga Nam Hkum near Je U village. Tuesday and Wednesday saw the Burma army repeatedly shell Mung Ding Pa village, according to a KIA officer based in the area. Yesterday one child was killed by a shell while four other villagers were injured, according to an individual who was able to speak to someone in the village.
A military italian patrol has been attacked with shots of light weapons, mortars and rocket launchers near Shindand, in Afghanistan: the fire fight lasted almost half an hour.
No wounded between italians. Contingent command sources referred it. The attack occurred in the afternoon, at 3:30pm local hour (13 in Italy), at 5 kilometers at south of advanced operative base in Shindand, in the west of Afghanistan.