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India has accused Pakistani troops of killing five Indian soldiers after firing across the Line of Control, the de facto border in disputed Kashmir. Pakistan any firing from its side, and calls the allegation “baseless.”
This latest incident comes amid attempts to renew diplomatic overtures for peace between the two nuclear-armed rivals.
A total of 94 communist rebels surrendered, were killed or arrested last month, the military claimed Thursday.
The Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP), however, also suffered with 29 soldiers killed and wounded in the same period.
Sudan’s Foreign Ministry says a rebel ambush on an army convoy has killed nine soldiers.
The convoy was transporting fuel supplies for the U.N. mission in Abyei, a disputed region between Sudan and South Sudan.
Militants belonging to the Pakistani Taliban and disguised in police uniforms launched an attack, late on Monday, on a prison in Dera Ismail Khan, a city in Pakistan’s Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa Province, and managed to free at least 247 prisoners.
Banned Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan, or TTP, used rocket-propelled grenades and machine guns to launch the attack on the prison, which is located near South Waziristan, Pakistan’s lawless tribal region along the border with Afghanistan, news reports said.
Gunmen attacked a coastguard checkpost in southwestern Pakistan on Saturday, killing at least seven officials and wounding seven others, officials said.
The incident happened in the Suntsar area of Gwadar district in Balochistan province at around 3 a.m.