23Pakistanis killedin 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