Lieutenant General Inayat Hussain has reportedly been appointed commander of the Pakistan Army’s XII Corps in Quetta, replacing Lieutenant General Rahat Naseem Ahmed Khan as part of a wider reshuffle of the military’s senior command structure.
The United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) said Pakistani airstrikes in Kunar and Helmand killed at least 10 civilians, most of them children, and injured nine others.
“At least 10 civilians were killed,...
Pakistani airstrikes hit three houses in Afghanistan on Thursday, killing nine people including women and children, the Taliban government said, while Islamabad said 22 “terrorists” were killed after hideouts were targeted.
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Afghanistan’s defence ministry said on Sunday that its forces killed 28 fighters and wounded 32 in Nuristan after an armed group crossed from Pakistan, alleging that Pakistani militias had supported the incursion.
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US-made Mark 82 (Mk 82) bombs were used in Pakistani airstrikes on Afghanistan’s Kunar province on September 21, according to an analysis of bomb remnants by the BBC Afghanistan Fact Check team.
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At least 12 people, including ten police and excise department personnel, were killed and 32 others injured in a suicide attack on a checkpoint in Pakistan’s Dera Ismail Khan district on Saturday, police and rescue officials said.
Pakistani security sources said several Afghan Taliban fighters were killed in clashes along the Pakistan-Afghanistan border in Balochistan’s Gulistan on Friday, claiming forces had foiled what they described as an “attempted Afghan aggression”.
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A Baloch armed group said on Thursday it had bombed a train in Pakistan’s southern Sindh province the previous night, the latest in a series of railway attacks claimed by the group.
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Pakistan said on Thursday that it carried out air and drone strikes on 10 locations in Afghanistan it said were being used to launch and store drones, a day after claiming to have shot down eight drones...
Pakistani airstrikes killed at least three civilians in Afghanistan on Monday, Afghan authorities said, as Islamabad separately claimed 28 militants and suicide bombers were killed in attacks on three targets.
Afghan government spokesperson Zabihullah...
