Latest US drone strike kills 10 'militants' in South Waziristan

Latest US drone strike kills 10 'militants' in South Waziristan - The Long War Journal

Latest US drone strike kills 10 'militants' in South Waziristan

US drones targeted a group of local Taliban fighters and "foreigners" who were gathering to mourn the death of a commander who was killed in another strike in Pakistan's Taliban-controlled tribal agency of South Waziristan just one day ago. The strike is the seventh in the past two weeks. The remotely piloted and CIA-operated Predators or the more deadly Reapers fired four missiles at a group of Taliban fighters loyal to Mullah Nazir who gathered in the village of Mana Raghzai in South Waziristan, according to The Associated Press . Ten "militants" are reported to have been killed in the strike. The Taliban fighters and several "foreigners," a term used by Pakistani officials to describe members of al Qaeda and other allied terror groups, were gathering to pay tribute to a Taliban commander known as Rahmanullah, who was killed in yesterday's drone strike in South Wazirista...

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