US missiles killed 20 Islamist militants in northwestern Pakistan yesterday, most of them members of an insurgent network fighting the US presence in Afghanistan, according to Pakistani intelligence officials.
Two missiles hit a house close to the town of Miran Shah in North Waziristan, a militant hot spot close to the border with Afghanistan.
The officials said 14 of the dead were Afghan militants belonging to the Haqqani network, a Taliban-linked militant faction fighting the US in Afghanistan.
Six were Pakistani militants supporting [...]
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