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It the first significant fighting reported between the two sides since Islamist and Tuareg rebels seized control of the north of the country last April.
The Islamists had reportedly tried to make an advance into the government-controlled south.
It is not clear whether there were any casualties.
Burmese government troops have begun a push to seize a Kachin Independence Army (KIA) outpost located just west of the group’s headquarters at Laiza, a day after Laiza itself reportedly came under artillery attack.
The new offensive, which targets a KIA position on a hill called Hpun Pyan Bum, began at noon today, according to Min Htay, a major serving in the All Burma Students Democratic Front (ABSDF), an ally of the KIA.
Pakistani and Indian troops exchanged gunfire across the disputed Kashmir border early Sunday, leaving one Pakistani soldier dead in a relatively rare fatal confrontation between the two neighbors.
As usual, the rival armies, which have been engaged in a face-off in Kashmir for decades, disagreed about who started the shooting or what happened next.
Pakistan said Indian troops crossed the disputed boundary, known as the Line of Control, into Pakistani-controlled territory, where they attacked a remote outpost and wounded two soldiers, one of whom later died.
The Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) decided Thursday to extend its ceasefire declaration until January 15 after the Philippine government has announced of honoring the suspension of military and police operations up to the same date.
With the extension of the truce, the CPP Central Committee (CC) advised all commands and units of the New People’s Army, the leftist group’s armed wing, and the people’s militias that the end of the ceasefire declared on Dec. 20, 2012 has been “re-extended to 2359H (hour) of January 15.”
Twenty militants were killed and 14 wounded in a security forces’ strike in Khyber Agency early Friday morning.
The offensive took place in Teerah Valley when jet planes bombarded the militants hideout as a result 20 militants were killed and 14 wounded. Security forces also destroyed five hideouts of the militants.
Puntland government forces repelled an attack by al-Shabaab terrorist group overnight Thursday Jan. 3, 2013, where government forces killed 3 al-Shabaab/al-Qaeda terrorists and wounded 5 other attackers.
The attack occurred around 10:30pm at a location approximately 40km southwest of Bossaso, where Puntland government forces manning a remote outpost near the Galgala Mountains successfully repelled the attack and chased the fleeing attackers into the mountains.
Rebels have stormed parts of Taftanaz military airport in Syria’s northwest Idlib province, but state media reported on Thursday that the fighters had been repelled by troops.
A rebel speaking from near the Taftanaz base overnight said the base’s main sections were still in loyalist hands but fighters had managed to infiltrate and destroy a helicopter and a warplane on the ground.