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At least two soldiers were killed and four others injured in two separate clashes between security personnel and militants in Pakistan on Saturday, local media and officials said.
The Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR), the media wing of Pakistani army, said in a statement that two soldiers and six terrorists were killed in an operation in South Waziristan area of the country’s northwest Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province.
At least 45 Afghan security forces and 16 militants have been killed after Taleban militants attacked security checkpoints in two Afghanistan provinces, authorities said on Wednesday.
In one attack, 30 Afghan Army soldiers and 16 Taleban militants were killed overnight after militants stormed two security checkpoints in Badghis province, provincial governor Abdul Qhafoor Malikzai told Xinhua news agency.
Renewed clashes between government forces and Daesh-inspired terrorists displaced hundreds of residents in several villages in Lanao del Sur as the army pressed on with its operations to root out militants.
Col. Romeo Brawner, spokesperson of the Task Force Ranao, said pursuit operations continue against combatants of a radical faction of the Bangsamoro Islamic Freedom Fighters (BIFF) and remnants of the clan-based Maute group.
At least 10 Afghan soldiers were killed and five others wounded after Taliban insurgents attacked joint security checkpoints in Afghanistan’s northern Qala-e-Zal district, Kunduz province Monday, sources said.
The clashes started early Monday morning after militants launched coordinated attacks on security checkpoints in Aaq Tipa locality of the district in provincial capital Kunduz, Sayyed Asadullah Sadat, a provincial council member, told Xinhua.
At least 16 people have been reported killed and more than 30 wounded in an explosion in the southern Afghan city of Kandahar, as the Taliban pushed ahead with their annual spring offensive across the country.
There was some confusion about the cause of the May 22 blast.