Moscow on Saturday accused Azerbaijan of violating a ceasefire agreement by entering the Russian peacekeeping mission’s zone in the breakaway region of Nagorno-Karabakh, the first time Russia publicly assigned the blame for violating the 2020 deal made after Azerbaijan’s war with Armenia.

The Russian defense ministry also accused Azerbaijani troops of using Turkish-made drones to strike Karabakh troops, while the foreign ministry in Moscow expressed “extreme concern” over the spiraling tensions in the region.

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In just 24 hours, a total of 75 alleged communist rebels and local terrorists surrendered to the military in Mindanao, the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) disclosed Saturday, March 19.

Col. Jorry Baclor, chief of the AFP public affairs office, said the surrender of the rebels and terrorists indicate their “dwindling strength” as the military continues its relentless operations to curb insurgency and terrorism before President Duterte steps down as the Commander-in-Chief in June.

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The Kachin Independence Army (KIA) attacked the junta’s armed forces with the support of the People’s Defence Force (PDF) after 200 soldiers from Infantry Battalion 40 approached the Kachin fighters stationed in Hopin sub township in Mohnyin District.

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Twenty militants and nine soldiers were killed in recent days during insurgent attacks on two military bases in Pakistan’s southwestern Balochistan province and the military’s response, the military said on Saturday.

The attacks, the biggest in recent years by ethnic Baloch insurgents, began on Wednesday night.

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Wiro Nongganop says he commands a battalion of West Papua independence fighters, but he has no guns, only bows and arrows, and lives in exile in a bark hut, sometimes surviving on potato leaves.

Nongganop and a few members of his Muyu tribe fled their homeland in 2019, crossing the poorly marked Indonesian border for the relative safety of remote western Papua New Guinea.

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