2023-04-26 12:40:02
ISLAMABAD (AP) — An operation targeting militants in northwestern Pakistan sparked a shootout that killed two soldiers and two insurgents, the military said Wednesday.
The battle took place in Tirah, a former rebel stronghold in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province bordering Afghanistan, Pakistani forces said in a statement. They gave no details about the dead insurgents.
The raid came a day after the military announced it had expanded operations against insurgents across the country, especially in northern tribal regions that were formerly a stronghold of the Pakistani Taliban, a group that has been waging an insurgency for 15 years.
The Pakistani Taliban, known as Tarik-e-Taliban Pakistan, is a separate organization but allied to the Afghan Taliban, which seized power in Afghanistan in August 2021. That uprising fueled the TTP, which has intensified its attacks in recent months.
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