At least 21 rebels have been killed following fierce fighting between two rival groups in the southern Philippine island of Sulu, according to the police and military.

A Philippine police spokesman said on Monday that 13 members of the al-Qaeda-affiliated Abu Sayyaf Group (ASG) were killed, while eight rebels were confirmed dead from the Moro National Liberation Front (MNLF).

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Taliban militants killed at least nine soldiers and four paramilitary troops in an attack on a Pakistani Army base in northwestern Pakistan early Saturday, officials said.

The raid on the army post in Serai Naurang town, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province began before dawn and lasted for several hours, said senior police officer Arif Khan Wazir. The militants were armed with automatic weapons and rocket-propelled grenades, he said.

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At least 7 people died in clashes between pakistan talibans and Aman Lashkar militia Aman Lashkar (tribal force backed by government) in Khyber Agency, at border with Afghanistan, in clashes that caused more than 90 casualities in last 5 days.

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Kachin rebels have lost the last major stronghold protecting their headquarters in Laiza, sparking fears that the town — under rebel control for the past 50 years — may soon fall to government troops and force refugees into China.

The outpost of Hka Ya Bum, the most strategic peak in a mountain range five miles west of Laiza, fell on Saturday after days of heavy bombardment by the Burmese forced rebel soldiers with the Kachin Independence Army to withdraw to positions farther south.

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Officials in Afghanistan say at least 10 people — including eight police officers — were killed when their vehicle hit a roadside bomb.

At least two men who had been detained by the police were also killed in the explosion late January 26 in the southern city of Kandahar.

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