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Three Hizbul Mujahideen militants, including two self-styled commanders, were killed in a gunbattle which broke out between the ultras and security forces in Shopian district of south Kashmir today.

Nine militants , including a top Hizbul Mujahideen commander, were killed in six encounters in Jammu and Kashmir, a defence spokesman said today.

A soldier and a villager were killed Wednesday by security personnel in an operation against militants that had started the day before in Jammu and Kashmir's mountainous Reasi district.

Two militants were killed in an encounter with security forces in Kupwara district of north Kashmir Wednesday morning.

The Indian Mujahideen was conceived at a meeting of the Lashkar-e-Tayiba and the Harkat-ul-Jihad-i-Islami, held in Kotli, Pakistan occupied Kashmir, on May 3, which was attended by top leaders of the terror outfits.

In a gruesome incident, 17 policemen were killed in an encounter with naxalites at the Laheri police outpost in Gadchiroli district of Maharashtra on Thursday.

With the situation "improving" in Jammu and Kashmir (J&K), the government today said it has withdrawn two Army divisions, comprising 30,000 men, from the state but made it clear that the operation of the Armed Forces Special Powers Act (AFSPA) there could not be revoked at present.

A senior IAF pilot was killed and three others were feared dead after their Mi-17 helicopter crashed into the Chenab river in the mountainous Doda district of Jammu and Kashmir on Friday afternoon.

A bomb attack on Iran's elite Revolutionary Guard that killed over 40 people including top generals was carried out by terrorists trained by America and Britain in nearby Pakistan, a senior commander said on Monday.