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The military confrontation between Cambodian and Thai troops over the border area near Preah Vihear temple continues on Saturday and troops on both sides are still on high alert, said a close military source standby at the area.
“We’re still on high alert to defend our territorial integrity, ” a senior officer, who asked not to be named, said on Saturday.
Communist rebels have shot and killed a police chief and four other officers in northern Philippines after detonating roadside bombs under their patrol car, officials said.
Sunday’s attack killed the Rizal town police chief, his brother, wife and two other officers. Two other police officials were also wounded in the ambush.
At least nine Maoist rebels were killed in an overnight “gun-battle” with police in India’s eastern state of Jharkhand, officials said on Friday.
Police officials said the gun battle with the rebels erupted at the Betla national park in Latehar district late Thursday when the police combed the thickly-forested area.
Nepal’s Maoists have relinquished control of at least 19,000 former fighters to government control in a move expected to boost the country’s peace process.
Pushpa Kamal Dahal, the Maoist leader popularly known as Prachanda, and Madhav Kumar Nepal, the country’s prime minister, signed a joint declaration on Saturday to place the former fighters under the control of a cross-party committee headed by the prime minister.
A 10 member group of armed insurgents joined to government in surrounding areas of Faryab province.
National security Dept. press office said to this news agency (Bakhtar News Agency), a 10 member group of armed insurgents led by Mullah Sayed Amirshai Agha were joined to government.
This group had activity against the government in surrounding areas of Pashtoonkot district of Faryab province. With the efforts of national army personnel, they joined peace process.