Along one of the world's most contested frontiers, Pakistan launched airstrikes into Afghan territory this week — the first since June — in direct response to a devastating militant assault on a police compound in Kohat that killed thirty-one people. The two governments now offer irreconcilable accounts of what the strikes destroyed: Pakistan speaks of training camps and militants eliminated, while Afghanistan's Taliban government speaks of homes and civilians. This exchange of violence and competing truths is not new between these neighbors, but it signals that three months of fragile quiet m
Pakistan claims 28 militants killed in Afghan airstrikes; Kabul reports 3 civilian deaths
At least 31 people killed in the prior Kohat attack on Pakistani police; disputed casualty figures from the Afghan strikes (Pakistan claims 28 militants, Afghanistan claims 3 civilians).