Imphal Update
As elections in the beleaguered state of Manipur concluded on the 11th, it has emerged that the Indian National Congress has only won 28 seats in the state Congress, falling short of the 31 needed to ensure a continuing lock on the state government. The up and coming BJP (Bharatiya Janata Party) - whose leader, Narendra Modi, is the Prime Minister of India - won 21 seats, forcing the creation of the first coalition government in the state decades.

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Given the tensions in the area, MilitaryGazette will maintain a close eye on the region.
Elsewhere in India...
The rest of India was busy, as fierce firefights occurred in the states of Chattisgarh and Bihar this week.
In Chattisgarh, eleven officers of the paramilitary Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) were killed in an ambush by Naxalite rebels, in the Sukma District; three other officers were injured in the attack. The security force personnel were apparently on foot, sweeping a road in the district, when the Maoist guerrillas opened fire. A massive manhunt is underway, in an attempt to run the Naxalites to ground.

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In Bihar, meanwhile, four Naxalites were killed in a ferocious firefight with commandos of the CRPF's elite counter-insurgency CoBRA 205 Battalion near the village of Thamkola, in the Nawada District.
Near India's capital of New Delhi, security units are on high alert, claiming that they have firm intelligence of the presence of a Khorasan unit of ISIL in the city. Meanwhile, in nearby Lucknow, an IED attack on a train far to the south - near Ujjain, in Madhya Pradesh state - led to an 11-hour standoff with police in Lucknow, that resulted in the suspected terrorist being killed by police. Three other members of what police are describing as a "self-radicalized cell" were arrested.
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Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) and the North-West Frontier Province (NWFP) of Pakistan, 2007 - By Pahari Sahib, via Wikimedia Commons
Security personnel killed at least fifteen suspected Islamic militants in two separate firefights near Peshawar - the capital of the country's Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) region, long plagued by terrorist groups - on Wednesday. Two security personnel were killed in one of the shootouts.
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The seesaw grind that is the War on Terror in the Middle East continued this week, with the Forces of Civilization continually trying to grind down the barbarians of the so-called "Islamic State".

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On the plus side, no cultural heritage sites were reported destroyed this week -- that's a win, at least.
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Police arrested two men in the storied city of Casablanca on Thursday, alleging links to ISIL. Police have also claimed to have dismantled a bomb-making lab.
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Shaded relief map of Algeria, 2001 - By CIA [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons
Nigerian troops, in the continuing fight against the ISIL-linked Boko Haram terrorists, have rescued upwards of seven hundred people - mostly young girls - while killing or capturing roughly a dozen terrorists. The terror campaign has continued since 2009, but Nigerian forces are finally making solid headway against the terror group.
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