US drone strike kills Haqqani Network commander in Pakistan

KABUL tribal area, according to a media report local official said on Tuesday.

Commander Abubakar was killed on Monday night in a US drone missile strike in Speen Tal area of Hangu district, the report said.

A resident of Dewal village, Behram Khan, said three more people were injured in the strike, including a boy.

Khan said Abubakar was from Afghanistan‘s Khost Province and that his original name was Omar.

He added that the slain commander moved to Dewal from Pakistan’s North Waziristan tribal district after the Pakistani military launched a counterterrorist operation there in 2014.

The drone strike comes after a May 31 truck bombing in Kabul killed more than 150 people in the deadliest attack in the Afghan capital since the ouster of the Taliban following the U.S.-led invasion in 2001.

Earlier, a US senator asked Trump administration to review US drone attacks in Pakistan.

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