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The Afghan Special Forces killed 16 Taliban militants during the operations in Wardak and Logar provinces.
The informed military officials said Tuesday that the Special Forces killed 6 Taliban militants during an operation in Chak-e Wardak district of Wardak province.
One alleged New People’s Army (NPA) rebel was killed during a series of encounters with government forces in Victoria town in Oriental Mindoro province Wednesday and Thursday.
Capt. Patrick Jay Retumban, public affairs chief of the Army’s 2nd Infantry Division based in Tanay, Rizal, said in a report that the first encounter between communist guerrillas and soldiers from the Army’s 76th Infantry Battalion, under Lt. Col. Mario Lito Retirva assisted by local policemen, happened in Barangay Loyal early Wednesday.
Fierce clashes erupted between the Myanmar Army (or Tatmadaw) and the Arakan Army (AA) in Rathedaung, Kyauktaw and Minbya townships of N. Rakhine on Sunday.
According to the AA, the two sides clashed in two places in Rathedaung Township at 10 a.m. on Sunday.
At least six militants affiliated with the Haqqani network have been killed and seven others injured in eastern Paktia province, said a statement released by the provincial administration on Friday.
The security forces, according to the statement, launched cleanup operations in Gardisirai district of the province on Thursday and the government forces have also arrested seven suspected militants with the Haqqani network, a military wing of Taliban operating in the capital city Kabul and eastern provinces.
A soldier and three suspected members of the New People’s Army (NPA) were killed during separate encounters in Negros Oriental over the weekend.
The first incident took place in Barangay Talalak, Sta. Catalina town at dawn last Friday, June 21, 2019.