Pakistani forces secure fort; US drone kills four

Nov 5th, 2009 - Reuters

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Pakistani forces secure fort; US drone kills four

ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Pakistani soldiers secured a fort captured from militants in the northwest of the country on Thursday and consolidated their positions on peaks around another insurgent base, the military said.

The army launched an offensive on October 17 aimed at rooting out and defeating Pakistani Taliban militants in South Waziristan, a lawless ethnic Pashtun region on the Afghan border.

Separately, a U.S. drone aircraft fired two missiles into North Waziristan, another major al Qaeda and Taliban sanctuary in northwest Pakistan, killing four militants, Pakistani intelligence officials said.

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