Pakistan launches air strikes on ten Afghan sites, Taliban says four civilians killed

Pakistan launched air strikes on Thursday at ten sites in Afghanistan, saying the operation was a retaliation for a drone attack by Afghanistan's Taliban forces on a border post. Islamabad described the strikes as a response to that incident.

A Taliban government spokesman denied the allegation and reported that the latest Pakistani strikes killed four civilians in Afghanistan's southern and eastern provinces. The incident involved Pakistan's air strikes, the claimed retaliation, and the Taliban's report of four civilian deaths.