Afghanistan says Pakistani airstrikes killed women and children
Afghan officials say at least nine women and children were killed and 11 people wounded by Pakistani air attacks.
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Afghan officials say at least nine women and children were killed and 11 people wounded by Pakistani air attacks.
Kabul says the strikes on Kunar and Helmand provinces killed nine women and children.
Afghanistan’s defence ministry said on Sunday its forces had killed 28 fighters and wounded 32 in the eastern province of Nuristan after a group it said included Islamic State militants travelled from Pakistan. The ministry alleged Pakistani militias had supported the fighters and that most of them were former Afghan government security personnel. Pakistan’s information ministry rejected the allegations, describing them as “frivolous, baseless and devoid of any truth” in a post on social...
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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.
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