Pakistani forces kill Afghan Taliban fighters in border escalation
Pakistan's security forces report ongoing cross-border fire in latest fighting with Afghanistan.
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Pakistan's security forces report ongoing cross-border fire in latest fighting with Afghanistan.
Four civilians have been killed in the latest Pakistani airstrikes in Afghanistan.
Pakistan launched air strikes Thursday on 10 sites in Afghanistan in what Islamabad said was a retaliation for a drone attack by Afghanistan's Taliban forces on a border post. A Taliban government spokesman denied the allegation and said Pakistan's latest strikes killed four civilians in Afghanistan's southern and eastern provinces.
Strikes carried out in southeastern province of Khost cause no casualties, governor's office says.
Three members of one family killed in air raid on house in Kunar province, Afghan Taliban deputy spokesperson says.
Millions of Afghans have returned from Pakistan and Iran in recent years, including many who had never lived in Afghanistan, as both Pakistan and Iran step up deportations. BBC Chief International Correspondent Lyse Doucet is on Bloomberg This Weekend and says women and girls face an especially stark transition under Taliban restrictions that bar them from secondary and university education and many jobs. (Source: Bloomberg)
As of August, the number forced to return this year from Pakistan and Iran had reached another million.