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The national army forces conduced a cleansing operation under the code name of Oqab (Eagle ) in the relevant areas of Sangeen district of Helmand province and killed 4 insurgents, wounded 3 others.
National defense ministry’s spokesman said BNA, these forces also conducted another operation in Doulatyar district of Ghoor province, seized 11 light weapons.
Two Burmese army lieutenants were killed and several injured in a rare bout of fighting with the Kachin Independence Army (KIA) last week in Putao, Kachin, Burma’s northernmost state, according to local sources.
The two officers were killed in conflict that began on Wednesday, August 28 between Mali Hka river and Chyai Hka river in Machyangbaw Township, say the sources, who are members of a local church.
Taliban fighters wearing special forces uniforms have attacked a car park for NATO vehicles near a US military base in an Afghan province bordering Pakistan.
More than 30 vehicles stationed at the base before heading to Pakistan were torched or damaged as a result of early Monday’s attack, which was followed by a gun battle between the fighters and security forces, at the Torkham border crossing in Nangarhar.
Five Hizbul Mujahideen militants were killed on Friday in an encounter with security forces in Ganderbal district in Kashmir.
“Five militants belonging to the Qadri Asadullah group of Hizbul Mujahideen were killed in a counter-insurgency operation in Preng area of Ganderbal in the wee hours today,” a defence spokesman said.
After a period of relative calm, Kachin Independence Army (KIA) and a combined force of Burmese Army and Border Guard Forces fought a series of battles this week in Kachin and northern Shan State.
About 100 soldiers from a combined force of Burmese army’s 505th and 506th Light Infantry Battalions launched a new assault on Kachin people militia positions in Mungpaw in northern Shan State on Aug 20 at 10:30 am. Kachin people militia troops, composed mostly of local civilians, serve under KIA’s 4th Brigade, 2nd Battalion.
