Pakistancarried out airstrikes in easternAfghanistanthat killed at least 10 civilians, including nine children, the Taliban said on Tuesday. What do we know about the Pakistani airstrikes in Afghanistan? Pakistani intelligence sources told the DPA news agency that the strikes targeted the hideouts of the Pakistani Taliban group in the border province of Khost and other regions. "A good number of militants have been killed and we will continue this," an official told DPA.
Five Pakistani soldiers and 25 militants from the Tehrik-e Taliban Pakistan (TTP) extremist group were killed overnight on October 25, Pakistan's Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) said in a statement sent to the media on October 26. ISPR added that the clashes occurred when militants tried to enter the country's Kurram and North Waziristan districts along the northwestern border with Afghanistan.
Fierce fighting has broken out in at least five locations, with multiple soldiers killed, in a flare-up of violence between Pakistani and Afghan forces near the two countries' tense border. Pakistani security sources near the border region early on October 12 confirmed to RFE/RL's Radio Mashaal that three Pakistani soldiers and one civilian were killed and five soldiers were injured in the fighting and a subsequent response by the Pakistan military.
