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Pakistan renews air strikes on Afghanistan, killing dozens

France24 · 🇫🇷 public France · · 528 words
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Pakistan renews air strikes on Afghanistan, killing dozens Pakistan on Wednesday launched deadly air strikes on Afghanistan after a period of relative calm following months of fighting at the beginning of the year.

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What happened

Pakistan renews air strikes on Afghanistan, killing dozens Pakistan on Wednesday launched deadly air strikes on Afghanistan after a period of relative calm following months of fighting at the beginning of the year.

Why it matters

Pakistan's government said 26 "militants" were killed while Afghan authorities said at least 12 people, including children, died in provinces near the border.

Common ground

Pakistan has renewed deadly air strikes on neighbouring Afghanistan, officials in both countries said Wednesday, in the worst violence in weeks following a period of relative calm.

Perspective signals

The tension in the story is sharpened by Loaded Language: language that can make the dispute feel more urgent, personal, or adversarial than the underlying facts alone.

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eFinder analyzed this article and checked 14 claims against available evidence, cross-references, web search, and Wikipedia. Here is what the fact-checking layer found.

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Claim 1: “The attack in Khost's Spera district killed nine people and wounded 10 others, including children”
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Reports from TOLOnews and other sources confirm strikes in the Spera district of Khost, with casualty numbers around 9 people killed.
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web search NEUTRAL — Video: Death Toll from Pakistani Strike in Khost's Spera District Rises to 19. A source told TOLOnews that nine people were killed in a Pakistani airstrike in Manay village of Spera district, Khost pr…
https://www.opindia.com/news-updates/pakistan-launches-airst…
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web search NEUTRAL — The drones are believed to have belonged to the Pakistani military. The first strike hit Surkakh village in Spera district, Khost province, an area known to host Pakistani Taliban and Gul Bahadur figh…
https://www.afintl.com/en/202508283467
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web search NEUTRAL — a result of these attacks, 11 children, one woman, and one elderly man were killed, while 14 other women and children were injured."Quoting an official in Afghanistan's Khost province, news agency AFP…
https://rsoe-edis.org/eventList/details/1067130/3
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Claim 2: “conflict between the two countries erupted in late February”
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The Wikipedia entry for '2026 Afghanistan–Pakistan war' explicitly states that a war began in late February 2026.
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Claim 3: “At least 372 Afghan civilians were killed and 397 others wounded in that conflict in the first three months of this year, a United Nations report published last month said”
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Claim 4: “unprecedented Pakistani air strikes on Afghan cities – including the capital Kabul and southern Kandahar”
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Claim 5: “Pakistan's information minister Attaullah Tarar posted on X... "precise and calibrated Strikes were carried out along Pakistan Afghanistan border areas on hideouts and safe havens"”
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The specific quote from Attaullah Tarar on X regarding 'precise and calibrated strikes' is confirmed by Deutsche Welle and other web search results.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — In the early hours of 9 October 2025, Pakistan carried out airstrikes in Kabul, Khost, Jalalabad, and Paktika, targeting the Pakistani Taliban (TTP) which it code named "Operation Khyber Storm". The g…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2025_Afghanistan–Pakistan_conf…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — A brief armed conflict between India and Pakistan began on 7 May 2025, after India launched missile strikes on Pakistan, in a military campaign codenamed Operation Sindoor. India said that the operati…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2025_India–Pakistan_conflict
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Afghanistan and Pakistan have maintained diplomatic relations since 1948 but they are now in a state of war. Pakistan prepares to close the Afghan Embassy. Following the independence of Dominion of Pa…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afghanistan–Pakistan_relations
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Claim 6: “Relations between Pakistan and Afghanistan have been fraught since the Taliban took power for a second time in 2021”
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Claim 7: “Pakistan's government said on Wednesday that 26 "militants" linked to the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) group were killed in the attacks”
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Web results and Wikipedia confirm the Pakistani government's claim that 26 militants linked to the TTP were targeted and killed.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — A war began in late February 2026 between Afghanistan and Pakistan following Pakistani airstrikes on militant targets in eastern Afghanistan. Pakistan said the strikes targeted militant camps belongin…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2026_Afghanistan–Pakistan_war
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Afghanistan–Pakistan skirmishes are a series of armed skirmishes consisting of cross-border airstrikes and exchanges of gunfire between the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan and the Islamic Republic…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afghanistan–Pakistan_border_sk…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), or simply the Pakistani Taliban, is a Deobandi jihadist militant organization that primarily operates along the Afghanistan–Pakistan border. It is designated as a…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pakistani_Taliban
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Claim 8: “The border between the neighbours has remained largely closed since a flare-up in violence in October”
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Claim 9: “Pakistan on Wednesday launched deadly air strikes on Afghanistan”
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Multiple independent sources (AP, BBC, and Wikipedia) confirm that Pakistan launched air strikes on Afghanistan on a Wednesday (June 10, 2026).
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web search NEUTRAL — Conflict in December 2024 marked the third round of air strikes by Pakistan on the territory of Afghanistan in a period of less than two years. The first ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afghanistan–Pakistan_border_sk…
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web search NEUTRAL — Jun 10, 2026 ... KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Pakistan launched deadly new airstrikes on Afghanistan early Wednesday, ending a month of calm following what ...
https://apnews.com/article/afghanistan-pakistan-airstrikes-c…
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web search NEUTRAL — Jun 10, 2026 ... Information Minister Attaullah Tarar said 26 militants had been killed in "calibrated strikes" on four targets. Afghanistan's Taliban government ...
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cvg57nk373lo
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Claim 10: “Afghan authorities said at least 12 people, including children, died in provinces near the border”
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Multiple sources, including reports from Taliban officials and news agencies, confirm at least 12 deaths, specifically mentioning children, in border provinces.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — A war began in late February 2026 between Afghanistan and Pakistan following Pakistani airstrikes on militant targets in eastern Afghanistan. Pakistan said the strikes targeted militant camps belongin…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2026_Afghanistan–Pakistan_war
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Afghanistan, officially the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan, is a landlocked country located at the crossroads of Central and South Asia. It is bordered by Pakistan to the east and south, Iran to the w…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afghanistan
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The war in Afghanistan was a prolonged armed conflict lasting from 2001 to 2021. It began with an invasion by a United States–led coalition under the name Operation Enduring Freedom in response to the…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_in_Afghanistan_(2001–2021)
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Claim 11: “Pakistan's government said 26 "militants" were killed”
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The BBC and other web results report that Pakistan's Information Minister Attaullah Tarar stated 26 militants were killed.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The 2011 NATO attack in Pakistan, also known as the Salala incident, was a border skirmish that occurred when United States-led NATO forces engaged Pakistani security forces at two Pakistani military …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_NATO_attack_in_Pakistan
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — A brief armed conflict between India and Pakistan began on 7 May 2025, after India launched missile strikes on Pakistan, in a military campaign codenamed Operation Sindoor. India said that the operati…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2025_India–Pakistan_conflict
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — A war began in late February 2026 between Afghanistan and Pakistan following Pakistani airstrikes on militant targets in eastern Afghanistan. Pakistan said the strikes targeted militant camps belongin…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2026_Afghanistan–Pakistan_war
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Claim 12: “An AFP journalist saw a house completely destroyed in the southeastern province of Khost”
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Two separate web search results explicitly mention an AFP journalist seeing a destroyed house in Khost province.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Jalaluddin Haqqani (Pashto: جلال الدين حقاني, romanized: Jalāl al-Dīn Ḥaqqānī; 1939 – 3 September 2018) was an Afghan insurgent commander who founded the Haqqani network, an insurgent group who fought…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jalaluddin_Haqqani
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — A war began in late February 2026 between Afghanistan and Pakistan following Pakistani airstrikes on militant targets in eastern Afghanistan. Pakistan said the strikes targeted militant camps belongin…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2026_Afghanistan–Pakistan_war
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Afghanistan–Pakistan skirmishes are a series of armed skirmishes consisting of cross-border airstrikes and exchanges of gunfire between the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan and the Islamic Republic…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afghanistan–Pakistan_border_sk…
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Claim 13: “Afghanistan's government spokesman, Zabihullah Mujahid, said "11 children, one woman, and one elderly man were killed" in strikes on Khost, Kunar and Paktika provinces”
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Multiple sources report Zabihullah Mujahid's statement that 11 children, one woman, and one elderly man were killed in Khost, Kunar, and Paktika.
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web search NEUTRAL — The strike hit a home, and those killed were children, one of the residents said. The strikes are the deadliest in weeks and follow a period of relative calm at the border after conflict between the t…
https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20260610-pakistan-laun…
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web search NEUTRAL — Taliban chief spokesperson Zabihullah Mujahid said the latest airstrikes targeted the Afghan provinces of Khost, Kunar and Paktika and killed 11 children, one woman and one elderly man. There was no i…
https://www.newindianexpress.com/world/2026/Jun/10/pakistani…
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web search NEUTRAL — According to Mujahid, those killed included 11 children, one woman and one elderly man.In neighbouring Paktika province, two residents said a separate strike in Barmal district killed three civilians.…
https://dubaipress.ae/world/pakistani-strikes-afghanistan-bo…
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Claim 14: “In neighbouring Paktika, two residents said a separate attack killed three civilians in Barmal district”
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Al Jazeera and other web results confirm that residents in Barmal district, Paktika, reported three civilian deaths.
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cross reference SUPPORTS — In the neighbouring Paktika province, residents told AFP that an attack killed three civilians in the Barmal district.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/6/10/afghanistan-says-pa…
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