Pakistan’s president is defending cross-border strikes in Afghanistan and urges the Taliban government to disarm militants attacking his country.

Afghanistan claims military gains while Islamabad denies targeting civilians. UN agency calls for an end to violence affecting humanitarian efforts.

Afghan officials said they had thwarted a Pakistani airstrike on the former U.S. base, Bagram airfield, amid an intensifying campaign that has targeted dozens of military sites across the country.

Afghan forces seize key Pakistani military posts along the Durand Line as cross-border hostilities enter a fifth day.

Pakistan armed forces, under Operation Ghazab lil-Haq, continue to give an effective, immediate and brutal response to Afghan Taliban's unprovoked aggression on Pak-Afghan border.

Pakistan’s airstrikes in Afghanistan showed its overwhelming superiority in conventional warfare, but the Taliban have refined a lethal repertoire of guerrilla tactics.

Kabul claims 55 civilians were killed in fighting sparked by retaliatory operations along the border, while Pakistan says more than 400 Afghan Taliban forces have died and denies targeting civilians.