Thousands of Myanmar Army (MA) and United Wa State Army (UWSA) troops are encircling one another around a strategic mountain in Monghsat township, opposite Chiangmai and Chiangrai provinces, according to Thai and Shan sources.

Pakae, the Wa outpost, one mile south of Loi Hsarm Hsoom, where the Burma Army is guarding its communication line between Monghsat and Tachilek, is being surrounded by Burmese troops, who are in turn surrounded by Wa troops. Pakae is higher than Loi Hsarm Hsoom and poses as a threat to the later.

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Philippine troops have called off an offensive that killed dozens of breakaway Muslim rebels and dislodged 100 others from two southern strongholds ahead of the resumption this week of peace talks between the government and a main insurgent group, military officials said Monday.

Village officials and witnesses have reported between 36 to 80 armed fighters of the rebel faction Bangsamoro Islamic Liberation Movement were killed in clashes over the weekend in villages of a vast marshland bordering the provinces of Maguindanao and North Cotabato, according to army officials.

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The Afghan Defense Ministry says 14 Afghan soldiers and dozens of Taliban militants have been killed across the country in the past 24 hours.

In a statement on July 7, the ministry said three Afghan National Army (ANA) soldiers were killed by artillery fire and roadside bombs in Wardak Province, west of Kabul.

Around a dozen Taliban insurgents were killed in the operation.

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Eight suspected New People’s Army rebels, including two females, were killed following a clash with government security forces in Sorsogon province early Thursday morning, a military spokesperson said.

Around 6 a.m., elements of the Army’s 31st Infantry Battalion engaged an undetermined number of insurgents in Barangay Upper Calmayon in Juban town, said military information chief Lt. Col. Ramon Zagala.

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Dozens of heavily armed militants stormed a checkpoint in a northwestern Pakistani village overnight, killing at least six paramilitary police and wounding seven others, officials said Wednesday.

The attack took place at Jina Kor, 40 kilometres (25 miles) southeast of Peshawar and close to the tribal area of Darra Adam Khel, where Taliban militants are active.

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