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Seven Pakistani soldiers have been killed in a terrorist raid in Balochistan, attack claimed by Balochistan Liberation Army (BLA), an ethnic Baloch separatist group in the province, that on Telegram has threatened further actions
Thirty communist rebels have surrendered to the Philippine National Police (PNP) ironically on the same day that the New People’s Army (NPA) is celebrating its 52nd founding anniversary on Saturday, a top police official said.
PNP chief Gen. Debold Sinas said those who surrendered are composed of squad leaders and regular fighters of the NPA based in Agusan del Norte.
The Shan State Progress Party (SSPP) and the Restoration Council of Shan State (RCSS) have been holding talks to end the clashes in northern Shan State that have been going on since early December, the SSPP released a statement on December 15.
The statement said that both the SSPP and the RCSS were working to reduce tensions as much as possible and had held several rounds of talks. It said it hoped an agreement would be reached soon to end the fighting.
Nearly 60 Taliban insurgents have been killed in clashes with the security forces in Ghazni and Kandahar provinces, officials said in Friday.
Wahidullah Jumazada, spokesman for the Ghazni governor, told Pajhwok Afghan News the militants stormed a security check-post around midnight in Qarabagh district.
Azerbaijani and Armenian forces clashed over the weekend in the first serious test of Russia’s peacekeeping mission in Nagorno-Karabakh since a November 10 ceasefire.
The Azerbaijanis attempted to expel Armenian units from a small enclave, saying that Armenians had carried out two deadly attacks on their forces over the past three weeks.