In a retaliatory strike against Pakistan, the Afghanistan forces hit several targets inside the country. Sources close to Taliban's defence ministry say that 19 Pakistani troops were killed in action.
While Pakistani officials have not officially confirmed the airstrike, security sources close to the military said that the attack was aimed at Taliban hideouts near the border. Meanwhile, the Taliban govt in Afghanistan has vowed to retaliate.
The US conducted over 75 airstrikes targeting ISIS camps in Syria after the fall of Bashar al-Assad’s regime. CENTCOM confirmed no civilian casualties. President Biden reiterated America’s commitment to preventing an ISIS resurgence.
The strikes Sunday targeted a pharmacy, then other strikes followed that targeted people gathering in the vicinity of the initial damage, the coalition said in a statement.
The US Central Command said American and British forces struck 13 targets in Houthi-controlled Yemen, targeting the Salif port and a radio building in Hodeidah's Al-Hawk district. The Houthis had ramped up their attacks on international ships in the Red Sea, demanding Israel to end the war in Gaza.
The International Court of Justice ordered Israel to halt its Rafah offensive in the wake of widespread destruction, although Israel was expected to ignore it. Israeli PM Netanyahu called the order "false, outrageous and morally repugnant" and insisted that Israel was defending its citizens.
Iran launched dozens of drones and ballistic missiles toward Israel late Saturday in an unprecedented revenge mission that pushed the Middle East ever closer to a regionwide war.
President Joe Biden convened the Group of Seven advanced democracies on Sunday to coordinate a rebuke to Iran for its unprecedented and largely unsuccessful aerial attack on Israel and to prevent a wider regional escalation.
Pakistan confirmed that it carried out “intelligence-based anti-terrorist operations” inside the border regions of Afghanistan, while the Taliban retaliated by targeting Pakistan's military posts. Islamabad has accused the Taliban of failing to stop terrorists from attacking Pakistan.
It was not immediately clear whether anyone was killed in what the extremist group called a "retaliatory" move against Pakistani forces which had killed at least eight people including children in the Barmal district of Paktika and the Spera district of Khost.
The airstrikes took place after a terrorist attack killed seven soldiers in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, for which Pakistan blamed Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP). Pakistan targeted TTP hideouts in Afghan territory but the Taliban condemned Islamabad's airstrikes as a violation of its sovereignty.
Houthi attacks began in November in solidarity with Palestinians and escalated despite warnings and attacks by US, British and other forces. Last week, a Houthi missile killed three of a ship's crew members, marking the first fatal strike since Israel's war on Hamas in Gaza.
The US military said that its massive barrage of strikes hit command and control headquarters; intelligence centres; rockets and missiles, drone and ammunition storage sites; and other facilities connected to the militias and the Iranian Revolutionary Guard's Quds Force.
The development came after officials from Iranian and Pakistani foreign ministers exchanged goodwill messages amid tensions. Pakistan launched retaliatory attacks on Thursday that killed nine people in Iran, in response to Tehran's attack on militant groups in the Balochistan province on Tuesday.
In a statement, the foreign ministry has termed Iran's attack on Pakistan an issue that concerns only Islamabad and Tehran. However, it added that the action was taken in self-defence.
The development came after Iran admitted to carry out the airstrike in Pakistan and affirmed that they only targeted terrorists and not Pakistani citizens. Iran launched massive airstrikes targeting Jaish al-Adl--a Sunni militant group which largely operates across the border in Pakistan.
The airstrikes took place in Sagaing region's Khampat town, just south of the Indian border. However, the military denied responsibility for the aerial attack on Sunday, claiming that it was false news spread by an independent online news service sympathetic to the anti-military resistance.
Several militant groups have vowed to retaliate against the US for backing Israel in the war against Hamas, which has killed thousands of civilians in the besieged Gaza Strip. Last week, nine militants were killed in a similar airstrike in eastern Syria used by Iran-affiliated groups.
According to US officials, Iran-backed groups have carried out at least 40 such attacks at bases housing US troops in Syria since October 17. Although the US wants to deter Iranian aggression fuelled by the Israel-Hamas war, it is also working to avoid sparking a wider conflict.
Hagari said that Israeli troops are expected to enter Gaza City within 48 hours to further their attack on Hamas. They also allowed Palestinians to evacuate to southern Gaza, although many have returned due to Israel bombing areas in the South as well.
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