US drone strike kills 9 in Afghanistan
At least nine people have lost their lives in a suspected US drone strike in Afghanistan's eastern province of Nangarhar.
Two intelligence officials in Pakistan, speaking on condition of anonymity, said Tuesday’s air raid targeted militants in the Nazyan area of Nangarhar near Pakistan's Khyber Agency.
The assailants were reportedly from a terrorist group that has recently pledged allegiance to pro-Taliban militants in Pakistan.
A spokesman for the Nangarhar governor, Ahmad Zia Abdulazai, said he was only aware of a Monday airstrike that killed two suspected militants.
Since 2004, the US has been carrying out drone strikes in Afghanistan and several other Muslim countries, such as Yemen, Pakistan, Afghanistan and Somalia despite international criticism.
While Washington claims the targets of the drone attacks are al-Qaeda militants, local officials and witnesses have on many occasions maintained that civilians have been the victims of the attacks over the past few years.
US officials rarely inform their respective governments about their drone attacks that often target civilians.
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