Sources in the northern Afghan province of Badakhshan (see map), which borders neighbouring Tajikistan, report that Mujahideen of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan conducted a large-scale operation in the area which resulted in liberation the Manjan district, writes UmmaNews.

Scores of police and militants from theb Karzai’s puppet gang “Arbak” were eliminated during the offensive. The puppet district ringleader, so-called “governor” of Manjan, fled in an unknown direction. Mujahideen managed to capture at least 30 puppets.

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Despite progress in its transition to democracy, Myanmar has struggled to end all the ethnic insurgencies that have long divided the country.

Now the Kachin — the last of the insurgent groups that have been fighting the government — have that could end the conflict.

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The attack began Thursday with a suicide bomber detonating a car bomb outside the compound of militant commander Nabi Hanfi, followed by militants launching an assault with guns.

The attack killed at least 15 people.

Hanfi, who reportedly survived the attack, was the leader of an anti-Taliban militia he formed after breaking away from the Taliban in 2009. He had been battling the Pakistani Taliban in the Orakzai tribal area and had been supported by the Pakistani government, local sources reported.

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Army has confirmed that it has ended its operation killing all the three terrorists who launched a deadly early-morning attack. Police have have ruled out the possibility of a fourth terrorist as was believed earlier.

At least nine people, including a lieutenant colonel of the Indian Army, were killed and four injured in twin terror attacks by a single “fidayeen” (suicide) squad in Kathua and Samba districts of Jammu region on Thursday morning. An unknown outfit Shohada Brigade, suspected to be Lashkar-e-Taiba’s shadow or proxy name, has claimed responsibility for the attack.

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The Shan State Army-North (SSA-N) endured a six-hour clash on Monday morning with the Burmese army in northern Shan state’s Namtu township, a spokesman for the ethnic army told DVB.

Capt Sai Phone Harn of the SSA-N information team said the group engaged in a six-hour exchange of small arms with the Tatmadaw in the early hours of 23 September in Namtu’s Mongyin village-tract which was the scene of a shorter battle one week ago.

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