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India: China Likely Lost Soldiers in Border Clash

reporter 1222 — Sun, 21 Jun 2020 09:10:45 +0000

TEHRAN (Iran News) – China lost at least 40 soldiers in a clash with India at their disputed border this week, a federal government minister has said, as the nuclear-armed countries remained locked in a confrontation on the frontline on Sunday.

China has not said anything about any losses in soldiers in the hand-to-hand clash that took place in the heavily contested Galwan Valley in the western Himalayas, in which 20 Indian soldiers were killed and at least 76 injured, Reuters reported.

“If 20 were martyred on our (Indian) side, then there would have been at least double the casualties on their (China) side,” V.K. Singh, the minister for roads and transport, told TV News24 in an interview broadcast late on Saturday.

Singh, who is a former army chief, did not provide any evidence to support his statement. He said China historically never accepted any war casualties including in the 1962 conflict with India.

China’s state controlled Global Times said earlier there had been casualties on the Chinese side but did not elaborate.

Singh said the Indian side had handed over Chinese troops who had strayed into Indian Territory after the violent standoff.

India’s defense ministry spokesman Bharat Bhushan Babu refused to comment on Singh’s interview.

The nuclear-armed Asian neighbors traded accusations on Saturday that the other had violated their shared de facto border, an area that this week became the site of their deadliest clash in half a century.

Troops remain locked in a face-off at several locations along the poorly defined Line of Actual Control, despite talks between local commanders to de-escalate.

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has criticized China for escalating border tensions with India.

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Border shootings in Kashmir remained Six killed

reporter 1222 — Thu, 26 Dec 2019 10:26:57 +0000

‌TEHRAN (Iran News) – Troops from India and Pakistan have exchanged heavy fire and border shootings along the restive Line of Control (LoC) that divides Kashmir between the two countries, with a total of six soldiers reportedly killed from both sides.

The Pakistani armed forces said two of their soldiers were killed on the border and one wounded when Indian forces started unprovoked shootings in Dewa Sector on the volatile border in Kashmir early on Thursday.

Accusing India of ceasefire violations, Pakistan’s Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) — the media wing of the Pakistani armed forces — said the soldiers had been killed while responding to cross-border fire from the “enemy” and that the forces had damaged an Indian post, killing three Indian soldiers.

Major General Asif Ghafoor, the director-general of ISPR, confirmed the report in a tweet and identified the two Pakistani soldiers killed in the incident.

The Indian army said on Wednesday that one Indian soldier and a civilian had been killed as Pakistan violated a ceasefire agreement and opened fire in north Kashmir’s Baramulla district.

The Indian army added that Pakistan had resorted to heavy firing from small arms and “also fired mortars and used artillery fire.”

Kashmir has been split between India and Pakistan since their partition in 1947. Both countries claim all of Kashmir and have fought three wars over the territory.

The two nuclear-armed neighbors have accused each other of violating the 2003 ceasefire agreement over 3,000 times to date this year.

Tensions escalated between the two nuclear-armed countries after February 14, when 40 Indian security personnel were killed in a bombing attack in Kashmir.

A Pakistan-based terror group claimed responsibility for the attack.

India recently scrapped the semi-autonomy of its part of Kashmir, sparking a new wave of tensions over the region.

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Russian MoD denies reports on killing of its soldiers in Syria

reporter 1222 — Wed, 11 Jul 2018 09:30:29 +0000

Russian Defense Ministry denied on Tuesday media reports about the killing of Russian soldiers in Daraa or in any other Syrian regions lately.

“There were no casualties among the ranks of Russian soldiers in Daraa or in any territory of Syria,” the Ministry said in a statement quoted by RT.

The statement added that all Russian military men in Syria are safe and in good health.

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