MIRANSHAH: Two separate US missile strikes targeting Al-Qaeda-linked fighters in Pakistan's northwest tribal belt yesterday killed 15 militants, local security officials said. A pre-dawn attack was directed at the Haqqani network, officials said, a Pakistan-based group with links to both Al-Qaeda and the Taleban and one of the toughest foes for foreign forces in the war in neighboring Afghanistan.
This month alone, a surge in US missile strikes has now killed 83 militants in the lawless tribal belt on the Afghan border, an area Washington has branded a global headquarters of Al-Qaeda and the most dangerous spot on Earth. With Pakistan struggling to cope with devastating floods that have hit 21 million people in the country's worst humanitarian disaster, Islamist militant violence has picked up in recent weeks with a wave of major bombings.
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