A series of battles took place between KIA’s 9th Battalion troops and BA’s 427th Light Infantry Regiment near the old Nam Pati village in Kutkai township on April 30 at 5:50 am and later again at 4 pm.

On April 29, KIA’s 9th Battalion troops and about 50 soldiers from BA’s 427th LIR engaged at the old Nam Pati village at around 12:25 pm. On the same day, another battle fought between KIA’s 9th Battalion troops and about 50 soldiers from BA’s 10th Light Infantry Battalion troops at Kawng Mu around 2 pm.

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At least 20 people were killed and 50 injured in Afghanistan’s capital Kabul on Sunday in a suicide bombing and gun battle at vice presidential candidate Amrullah Saleh’s office, the government said in a statement on Monday.

Saleh, a running mate of Afghan president, Ashraf Ghani, was slightly injured in the attack.

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At least four Maoists were gunned down in a fierce encounter with the security personnel in Bihar’s Aurangabad district on Thursday evening.

The gun-battle between security forces and Maoists, owing allegiance to the CPI (Maoist), began on Thursday afternoon in which more than 500 rounds of firing took place from both the sides.

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Two border guards were killed in clashes with militants near the country’s border with Pakistan, according to the elite Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) on Sunday.

In a statement, the IRGC said the fatalities occurred during confrontations between border guards and gunmen in Saravan border area, the official IRNA news agency reported.

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The Myanmar military used an attack helicopter to conduct air strikes during fighting with the Arakan Army (AA) in a rural area of conflict-ridden northern Rakhine’s Buthidaung Township on Thursday, according to local residents and the AA.

According to the AA’s battle update on Wednesday, a Myanmar military (or Tatmadaw) helicopter conducted bombardment and machine-gun strikes against AA rebels twice in the afternoon near Buthidaung’s Kan Pyin village after a Tatmadaw infantry unit sustained heavy losses in the area.

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