{"id":2759,"date":"2015-06-28T21:05:53","date_gmt":"2015-06-28T21:05:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/box5917.temp.domains\/~iriacom\/\/news\/?p=2759"},"modified":"2015-06-28T21:05:53","modified_gmt":"2015-06-28T21:05:53","slug":"pakistan-fighter-jets-kill-at-least-23-taliban-militants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/pakistan-fighter-jets-kill-at-least-23-taliban-militants\/","title":{"rendered":"Pakistan fighter jets kill at least 23 Taliban militants"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Pakistani military fighter jets have bombed militant positions in the country\u2019s rugged northwestern tribal region close to the border with Afghanistan, killing nearly two dozen militants.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">According to a statement released by the army\u00a0on Sunday, at least 23 Taliban militants were killed after military warplanes pounded their hideouts and ammunition depots\u00a0in areas across Khyber and North Waziristan tribal districts.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;Huge ammunition dump was also blown up during the strikes in Khyber,&#8221; the statement read.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Pakistani armed forces launched a massive operation against Taliban in North Waziristan in June 2014, after a deadly raid on the Karachi International Airport ended Islamabad&#8217;s\u00a0faltering peace talks with the pro-Taliban militants.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The army also started an offensive in Khyber in October 2014, carrying out air raids and using ground troops, artillery, and mortars.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Pakistan stepped up its anti-terror campaign following a December 16, 2014, attack on an military-run school in the northwestern city of Peshawar, which claimed the lives of about 150 people, mostly children.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The army\u00a0says it\u00a0has managed to kill\u00a0more than 2,700 militants over the past months.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The semi-autonomous tribal regions on Pakistan\u2019s border with Afghanistan have been a hideout for militant groups during the past years. The Al-Qaeda and\u00a0Taliban militants use the mountainous border area to launch attacks in both countries.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Insecurity and violence has been increasing across Pakistan&#8217;s northwest tribal belt following the US-led 2001\u00a0invasion of neighboring Afghanistan.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Thousands of Pakistanis have lost their lives by the wave of violence and militancy sweeping across the country.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pakistani military fighter jets have bombed militant positions in the country\u2019s rugged northwestern tribal region close to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2011,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[124,1],"tags":[9,16,106,137,15,5,8,10,11],"class_list":["post-2759","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-news","tag-afghanistan","tag-airstrike","tag-al-qaeda","tag-asia","tag-militants","tag-military","tag-pakistan","tag-taliban","tag-terrorism"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Pakistan-Air-Force-Fighter-Jet.jpg?fit=690%2C380&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7jJWb-Iv","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2759","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2759"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2759\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2760,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2759\/revisions\/2760"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2011"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}