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Clashes between Afghan security forces and militants ended in capital Kabul after all attackers including two suicide bombers and five militants were shot dead.
Deputy security chief for Kabul security commandment Gen. Daud Amin said all militants were shot dead by Afghan security forces.
The clashes started around 4:30am after a suicide bomber detonated his explosives near Kabul airport which triggered gun battle.
The Georgian military says six of its soldiers have been killed in a suicide attack in southern Afghanistan.
General Irakli Dzneladze, chief of the Georgian Army Joint Staff, said during a news conference in Tbilisi that the troops were killed when militants blew up a truck packed with explosives outside their base in restive Helmand Province.
Dzneladze said several soldiers were also injured.
According to officials, 6 Taliban militants were killed in a twin air-attack by ISAF choppers on Sunday morning in Zurmat district of Paktia.
A press release by Afghan National Army press office in Gardez says two groups of Taliban militants who were involved in destructive operations came under ISAF air attacks where 6 militants were killed.
The statement added that these militants were also suspected to be members of Haqqani Network.
Maoist rebels yesterday shot dead a senior paramilitary officer in a fresh gun battle just one week after they killed 24 people, including Congress politicians, in an ambush.
Security forces have been engaged in a long-running and bloody conflict with the outlawed Maoists in central India.
“When a police party was on a combing operation (looking for rebels), Maoists sprayed bullets on them,” police inspector general Ashok Juneja said.
Myanmar has reached a preliminary ceasefire agreement with ethnic Kachin rebels, the last major armed group to agree to stop fighting after decades of civil war.
Min Zaw Oo, negotiator and director of the EU-funded Myanmar Peace Center, said Kachin and Myanmar government representatives had signed a seven-point plan which included the halting of hostilities.
“I think we have achieved a breakthrough,” he said.