(MENAFN- The Peninsula) At least three terrorists were killed and five others injured when Pakistani fighter jets bombed militant hideouts in Tirah Valley of Khyber tribal agency.
Security sources said thre terrorist hideouts were also destroyed in the aerial strikes in Dohi area of Tirah valley.
The terrorists were said to belong to the banned Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP).
Pakistan's military has mounted a series of air strikes and ground assaults in Tirah in recent weeks that it says have captured key passes in a remote region that has never before come under full government control.
The operation in Tirah, part of Khyber tribal area, aims to build on the army´s offensive against strongholds of Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) and other militant groups in nearby North Waziristan that began in June last year.
Last month the army said it killed at least 230 militants in Tirah, which has long been a hideout for TTP and Lashkar-e-Islam (LI) militants.
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