Shaul Shay
(Senior research fellow at the International Institute for Counter-terrorism (ICT) at the Interdisciplinary Center Herzliya and former deputy head of Israel’s National Security Council)
Copyright: @ 2023 Research Institute for European and American Studies (www.rieas.gr) Publication date: 12 March 2023
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The Pakistani Taliban (Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan - TTP) claimed that it has carried out 29 attacks in Pakistan in February 2023, killing 57 members of the security forces and injuring 70 in various regions. Among those it had killed and wounded were members of the Pakistani army, paramilitary forces and police. TTP also said it had destroyed five army and one police patrol vehicles, as well as three police buildings. Most of the attacks were carried out in the Tribal Areas and the northwest of the country bordering Afghanistan. ... Read more