ISLAMABAD: Security forces in Pakistan said on Tuesday they killed 23 militants belonging to the banned Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) in two different operations in the northwestern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province this week. Pakistan refers to fighters of the TTP, an umbrella group of various armed groups, as “khawarij,” a term rooted in Islamic history that is used for an extremist sect that rebelled against authority and declared other Muslims to be apostates.

ISLAMABAD: Fifteen Pakistani Taliban militants were killed in the northwestern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) province in two separate counterterror operations last week, the military’s…

Pakistani forces kill 15 militants in northwest raids, targeting Taliban hideouts amid ongoing tensions with Afghanistan.