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The 2024 Afghanistan–Pakistan skirmishes were a series of armed clashes consisting of cross-border airstrikes and exchanges of gunfire between Taliban ruled Afghanistan, its allied terrorists and Pakistan, at many locations along the Afghanistan-Pakistan border, including North Waziristan, South Waziristan, Wana, Dera Ismail Khan, Shangla, Khost, and Paktika. [5]
May 10 – Between 150 to 300 people are killed during flash floods in Baghlan Province. [16] May 15 – A military Mi-17 helicopter crashes in Ghor Province, killing one person. [17] May 17: Six people, including three Spanish nationals, are killed and seven others are injured in a gun attack in Bamiyan. [18]
Operation Azm-e-Istehkam (Urdu: آپریشن عزم استحکام) is a counter-insurgency operation launched by the government of Pakistan in June 2024. [1] The operation was approved by Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif. [2] The operation will include not only military action, but also socio-economic uplift to deter extremism.
Pakistani airstrikes targeted multiple suspected hideouts of the Pakistani Taliban inside neighboring Afghanistan early on Monday, killing at least eight people and drawing return fire from the ...
Paktika Province. Paktika (Pashto: پکتیکا) is one of the 34 provinces of Afghanistan, located in the eastern part of the country. Forming part of the larger Loya Paktia region, Paktika has a population of about 789,000, [3] mostly ethnic Pashtuns. The town of Sharana serves as the provincial capital, while the most populous city is Urgun.
March 2024 – On 18 March 2024 Pakistan launched pre-dawn airstrikes targeting TTP hideouts in Afghanistan's Khost and Paktika province. [104] [105] [106] The strikes were in retaliation to an earlier militant attack by TTP that resulted in death of seven Pakistani soldiers and six TTP militants.
Blinken subpoenaed to appear on Sept. 24 before House committee over Afghanistan. September 18, 2024 at 7:29 PM. (Reuters) - The U.S. House of Representatives Foreign Affairs Committee subpoenaed ...
Paktia (Pashto پکتيا – Paktyā) is one of the 34 provinces of Afghanistan, located in the east of the country. Forming part of the larger Loya Paktia region, Paktia Province is divided into 15 districts and has a population of roughly 623,000, [3] which is mostly a tribal society living in rural areas. Pashtuns make up the majority of ...