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Two Burmese army lieutenants were killed and several injured in a rare bout of fighting with the Kachin Independence Army (KIA) last week in Putao, Kachin, Burma’s northernmost state, according to local sources.
The two officers were killed in conflict that began on Wednesday, August 28 between Mali Hka river and Chyai Hka river in Machyangbaw Township, say the sources, who are members of a local church.
Egyptian army helicopters launched missile strikes at militant strongholds in the Sinai peninsula on Tuesday.
Thirteen missiles were fired at positions in the city of Sheikh Zuweid, with army helicopters also targeting weapon caches. Three houses were struck in the attacks, with armored vehicles blockading a house where militants were believed to be a hiding.
French authorities declassified an intelligence report on Monday which claims that the Bashar al-Assad regime has staged at least three chemical attacks in Syria since April, including the August 21 attack.
The French government published a nine-page synopsis on Monday about Syria’s chemical weapons programme that sites at least three chemical attacks between April and August.
Taliban fighters wearing special forces uniforms have attacked a car park for NATO vehicles near a US military base in an Afghan province bordering Pakistan.
More than 30 vehicles stationed at the base before heading to Pakistan were torched or damaged as a result of early Monday’s attack, which was followed by a gun battle between the fighters and security forces, at the Torkham border crossing in Nangarhar.
Back to rise, in north of Mali, at border with Algeria, the tension between Arab Movement of the Azawad and National Movement for the Liberation of the Azawad (MNLA), armed groups that would achieve the independence of north regions from Bamako.
Officials in Yemen confirmed on Friday that a US-led drone strike in the southern province of al-Bayda, which is believed to be a stronghold of al-Qaeda in the region, took down a reported four terror militants, including a top al-Qaeda leader, Qayib al-Dhahab, from the Dhahad clan.
“Qayid al-Dhahab, chief of Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) in al-Bayda province, was killed along with two of his bodyguards by missiles of a US drone this morning,” Xinhua quoted local security official as saying.
Five Hizbul Mujahideen militants were killed on Friday in an encounter with security forces in Ganderbal district in Kashmir.
“Five militants belonging to the Qadri Asadullah group of Hizbul Mujahideen were killed in a counter-insurgency operation in Preng area of Ganderbal in the wee hours today,” a defence spokesman said.
