At least 24 Taliban militants have reportedly been killed in the latest infighting among the rival groups in western Herat province which ended late on Tuesday.

According to the local government officials, the incident took place in Pashtoon Zarghoon district after the supporters of Taliban Chief Mawlavi Haibatullah Akhundzada clashed with the dissident Taliban leader Mullah Rasool.

Provincial governor’s spokesman Jilani Farhad said they are aware regarding the latest infighting among the rival Taliban groups.

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Fierce clashes in Libya between pro-government militiamen and Islamic State militants in the city of Sirte and an explosion at a depot near the capital, Tripoli, left more than 60 dead in just one day, a spokesman and a Libyan state news agency reported Wednesday.

In Sirte, the last bastion of the Islamic State group in the North African country, Tuesday’s clashes killed 36 militiamen aligned with the newly-UN brokered government. The militias, mainly from the western town of Misrata, have been leading an offensive since early May to take full control over Sirte.

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Troops from the Kachin Independence Army’s (KIA) Regiment 6 attacked a Burma Army camp in Bang Lum Bum Mountain, between Mongyar and Mongkoe in northern Shan State, at 7 pm on 19 June.

An official from KIA Regiment 6 who had returned to Mongkoe and did not want to be named spoke to K.N.G.

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Six Jordanian troops were killed and 14 others injured Tuesday when a booby-trapped car struck a forward military post at the no man’s land at the borders between Syria and Jordan, the Jordan Armed Forces-Arab Army said Tuesday.

A car bomb struck the military post dedicated for serving and helping Syrian refugees at the area struck at 5:30am local time, the army said in a statement on its official Facebook page.

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Iraqi forces have managed to rescue 354 Izadi women from the Daesh in the recently-liberated city of Fallujah, an Yazidi official with Iraq’s Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) says.

“Iraqi forces involved in Fallujah’s [liberation] operation have managed to free 354 Izadi women, who were abducted by militants of Daesh organization after they took control of the Izadi-majority Shingal (Sinjar) region in August 2014,” Hadi Dubani, the director of Yazidi Affairs in the city of Dohuk, told the German news agency DPA on Sunday.

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Syrian government and Russian jets have stepped up the bombardment of a town in northern Syria held by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) group, increasing pressure on the fighters, according to a monitoring group.

Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) said the warplanes carried out at least 18 air strikes since dawn on Sunday on the town of Tabqa, just west of Raqqa, ISIL’s de facto capital in Syria.

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Fierce fighting between Kenyan military and al-Shabaab fighters took place in Hosingow area in Lower Jubba region of southern Somalia on Sunday, reports said.

The Kenyan army has engaged in a “fierce” battle with al-Shabaab fighters, according to local residents who said they could heard gunfire and sound of blasts as result of the attack.

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