New Offensive Targets Militants' Khyber Hideouts

Pakistani security forces have kicked off a new major ground offensive against militant in the northwestern Khyber Agency, reports Dawn (Pakistan).

Operation Khyber-4 was launched Sunday in Rajgal valley "to wipe out terrorists," said Maj. Gen. Asif Ghafoor in a statement that day from the military's Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR).

Militants linked to pro-ISIS groups, Lashkar-e-Jhangvi and the Pakistani Taliban, including splinter group Jamaat-ul-Ahrar, are entrenched...