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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]
KABUL/ISLAMABAD (Reuters) -Afghanistan's Taliban said on Monday that Pakistan carried out two air strikes on its territory, killing five women and three children, and it fired heavy weapons at ...
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.
August 13, 2024 at 2:44 AM. KABUL (Reuters) - Three Afghan civilians were killed in a border clash between Pakistan and Afghanistan security forces, a spokesman for the Taliban administration in ...
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.
The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs in Afghanistan reported that heavy rains and floods affected more than 25,000 families [1] and damaged nearly 1,000 houses. [12] [13] Department spokesman Janan Sayeq reported that most casualties occurred due to roof collapses. Over 600 km (370 mi) of road and 9,271 ...