KABUL, AFGHANISTAN – The Taliban’s Ministry of Defence says it carried out a drone strike on what it described as a Pakistani military camp in South Waziristan.
In a statement released on Sunday, the ministry said the attack targeted a military facility in the Wana area of South Waziristan, Pakistan. The Taliban said the strike was conducted in response to Pakistani air raids carried out overnight in Afghanistan’s Kandahar province.
According to the statement, the attack targeted a building belonging to Pakistan’s Special Services Group (SSG) commandos and other military installations. The Taliban claimed the strike caused “heavy human and financial losses” to Pakistani forces.
Pakistani authorities have not yet commented on the claim.
The statement comes after Pakistan launched air strikes on several areas in Afghanistan late on Saturday, including in Kandahar province.
The Taliban said the strikes targeted a drug rehabilitation hospital and an “empty container,” adding that there were no casualties in the attack.
Pakistan has experienced a marked increase in militant attacks, particularly in the border provinces of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Balochistan. Security forces, checkpoints, and civilians remain frequent targets of groups, including the TTP and the Baloch Liberation Army (BLA). Islamabad accuses the Afghan Taliban of supporting and providing safe havens to TTP and other militant groups, a claim the Taliban denies.
Security tensions have led to repeated cross-border clashes over the past four years. The latest clashes, which began in late February, continue along the border, with the Pakistani military conducting airstrikes in multiple provinces across Afghanistan. The United Nations has reported that these strikes and border clashes have caused dozens of civilian casualties in Afghanistan.
The latest strikes occurred late on Thursday, targeting areas in Kabul, Kandahar, Paktika, and Paktia provinces. According to the UN mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA), at least four civilians were killed and 14 others injured in Kabul when residential areas in District 21 were hit.
