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All US and NATO troops have left the biggest air base in Afghanistan, officials said yesterday, signaling that the complete withdrawal of foreign forces from the country was imminent after two decades of war.
Bagram Air Base served as the linchpin for US-led operations in the rugged country, where the long war against the Taliban and their al-Qaeda allies started following the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks.
Around 40 junta soldiers were killed on Tuesday by civilian resistance fighters of the Chinland Defense Force (CDF) during fierce clashes in Chin State’s Hakha and Falam townships.
On Tuesday morning, a firefight erupted after 40 fighters of the CDF-Hakha raided a police outpost in Bungzung Village located on the Gangaw-Hakha highway.
Afghanistan’s armed forces have repelled a full-blown Taliban attack on a key district in northern Samangan province and killed a handful of insurgents and foiling their longstanding plan to capture the district centre.
District Chief Haji Fazlullah on Saturday said Taliban insurgents had staged a full-scale dawn attack from all fronts on Feroz Nakhchir district, but they met with counterassault of Afghan security forces. in which two militants were killed and their attack was pushed back.
The army in Myanmar’s second city, Mandalay, has clashed with a local militia opposed to February’s military coup.
The clashes are the first time the People’s Defense Forces (PDF) have come up against the army in a major city.
Two Maoist rebels were killed in an encounter with police on Saturday in Orchha’s Abujhmad area.
A large quantity of Maoist literature has been recovered from the spot.
