Pakistan Hit Kills Twenty-Seven Members of Taliban

Katie Crawford

Twenty-seven known Taliban have been killed near the Afghanistan border. Most surprisingly two out of the twenty-seven were Taliban commanders. The Pakistan manages to kill theses militants in north-western Orakzai. The Pakistan security forces attacked after” a suicide car bomb blamed on the Taliban killed dozens of people at an anti-militant tribal meeting,” (BBC). There are still ongoing conflicts against the Taliban in Bajaur. The Taliban and Al Qaeda forces have been positioning themselves on the tribal Afghan border where they were safe fro United States forces, but the U.S. has been making more strikes against tribal areas, killing militants in hiding.