14:43 • 3 months ago

Taliban claims responsibility for bloody attack on Pakistani army camp

23Pakistanis killed in an early morning raid on an army camp just east of North Waziristan, which is used as a base of operations for militant groups, al-Qaeda and the Pakistani Taliban included. The Taliban that has claimed responsibility for the attack, waged in the dark hours of the early morning with rocket-propelled grenades and suicide bombs — a spokesman claimed the assault was in retaliation for Pakistan’s allowance of U.S. drone strikes, which killed two of their commanders near the Afghan border. source

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