New Offensive Targets Militants' Khyber Hideouts
July 17 2017
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...
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