Burmese army’s 257th Light Infantry Battalion (LIB) troops launched an attack on KIA’s 26th Battalion’s Nawng Mu post in Hpakant Township on Dec 15 at 1:20 pm. KIA sources said their troops had to withdraw from Nawng Mu post around 9 pm because of Burmese army’s continuous offensives. KIA’s 26th Battalion’s Nawng Lut Pa post and Great Wall post had been attacked on the same day.

On the same day, Kachin civilian forces under KIA’s 6th Battalion and Burmese army’s 256th LIB troops fought at Laika Galai, located between Sawng Hka and Labang Kahtawng, around 10 am.

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The Nigerian Army on Friday said its troops had captured 220 Boko Haram insurgents in various clearance operations in the northeast region.

Col. Onyema Nwachukwu, the Deputy Director, Army Public Relations, Operation Lafiya Dole, made the disclosure in a statement issued in Maiduguri.

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The military operation against the Houthi militia is escalating in the Shabwa governorate amid significant progress by the national army and popular resistance, especially in the Asilan and Bihan districts.

The commander of Yemeni forces in Bihan told al-Hadath reporter on Friday that most of Bihan was liberated except for some small villages, as the Yemeni army was keen to preserve the lives of civilians.

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At least 14 security personnel were killed in an attack by militants belonging to the Afghanistan’s insurgent group, Taliban in Helmand province.

Tolo News quoted Helmand Governor Hayatullah Hayat as saying that the security force members were on an operation in a remote area of the province to arrest drug smugglers when they were attacked by the militant group on Thursday.

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An Islamic extremist suicide bomber disguised as a police officer killed at least 17 and injured 20 at a police academy in Somalia’s capital on Thursday, police said.

Col. Mohamud Aden said that 20 other officers were wounded by the blast, some of them seriously.

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