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KABUL - Several explosions and gunfights rocked Kabul on Tuesday night as the conflict between the Taliban and Afghan government forces is intensifying elsewhere in the country ahead of the complete withdrawal of U.S. forces this month.

A man who was killed in a gunfight with security officers on Thursday afternoon in Pattani's Nong Chik district was a suspected operative insurgent named Sareesan-umree Dueramae.

Paramilitary rangers clashed with suspected insurgents in Narathiwat on Sunday morning but the 30-minute gunfight ended with no reported injuries.

STUDENTS screamed in fear on Friday morning as they heard guns being fired near their school in Narathiwat province.

Border Patrol police engaged in a shootout with drug traffickers in Chiang Mai on Thursday night.

Drug suspects fled leaving behind 530,000 meth-amphetamine tablets following a brief gunfight with officials at a checkpoint in Chiang Rai province’s Mae Sai district on Saturday night.

Police will apply for arrest warrants for at least six people on attempted murder charges after a shooting incident in downtown Hat Yai in Songkhla province early yesterday morning that followed an apparent quarrel between two gangs over a woman.

A brief morning gunfight between Thai security officers and a drug gang in a border area of Chiang Rai’s Mae Fa Luang district resulted in the seizure of 100,000 yaba pills, police said at a press conference on Monday afternoon.

Six alleged guards of a drug caravan were shot dead and two others wounded in a gunfight with soldiers in Chiang Mai’s Mae Ai district yesterday.