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Yahoo! My Yahoo! Mail More Yahoo! Services Account Options New User? Sign Up Sign In Help Yahoo! Search web search Home Singapore Asia Pacific World Business Entertainment Sports Technology Weekend Edition Australia China India Indonesia Japan Malaysia Philippines Thailand Vietnam US drone strikes kill 15 militants in Pakistan: officials AFP - Sunday, January 2 Send IM Story Print US drone strikes kill 15 militants in Pakistan: officials MIRANSHAH, Pakistan (AFP) - – Three US missile attacks in Pakistan's lawless tribal belt on Saturday killed at least 15 militants and destroyed a Taliban compound, local officials said. Pakistani officials said the three strikes by unmanned drones in a single day destroyed targets in North Waziristan tribal agency along the Afghan border, a known hub of the al-Qaeda-linked Haqqani network. They said the first two attacks took place in Mandi Khel, 25 kilometres (15 miles) north of North Waziristan's main town of Miranshah, while the third struck in Datta Khel, some 20 kilometres (13 miles) west of Miranshah. Seven militants were killed in the first attack when US drones fired four missiles, destroying a car and a militant compound, officials said. "Three militants were killed in the car while four were killed in the house," a security official in Peshawar told AFP. In the second attack, a US drone fired two missiles and killed four militants, officials said. A security official in Peshawar said militants had gathered to rescue the injured and remove the dead from the first attack when they were hit by the second. The 11 men killed in the first two attacks were thought to be linked to Taliban commander Hafiz Gul Bahadur, security officials in Miranshah and Peshawar told AFP. One official in Miranshah said they are seeking more information as informants in the area suspect that fighters from overseas were among the dead. "We have received such reports that four foreigners were also killed in these fresh attacks but their identities are still not known, and we are collecting more information," the official said. In the latest strike, US drone fired two missiles at a vehicle, killing four militants and taking the day's death toll to 15. "Two missiles were fired by a US drone and targeted a militant vehicle. We have reports that four militants have been killed," a local security official in Miranshah told AFP. All three drone strikes and the casualties were confirmed by a senior security official in Peshawar. US officials say Pakistan-based militants are active in escalating a nine-year insurgency in Afghanistan, putting up a deadly fight against 140,000 US-led NATO troops there and seeking to bring down the Western-backed government in Kabul. Washington says wiping out the militant threat in Pakistan's semi-autonomous tribal belt is vital to winning the war against the Taliban in Afghanistan and defeating Al-Qaeda. The Haqqani network, created by Afghan warlord Jalaluddin Haqqani, fights foreign troops in Afghanistan from bases in North Waziristan. The Taliban is also dominant in the restive tribal district, as are Pakistani warlord Hafiz Gul Bahadur and his ally Maulvi Sadiq Noor. The US does not confirm drone attacks but its military and the CIA operating in Afghanistan are the only forces that deploy the unmanned aircraft in the region. The covert campaign last year doubled missile attacks in the tribal area, where more than 100 drone strikes killed over 670 people in 2010 compared with 45 strikes that killed 420 in 2009, according to an AFP tally. Pakistan tacitly cooperates with the bombing campaign, which US officials say has severely weakened Al-Qaeda's leadership. But it has stalled on launching a ground offensive in North Waziristan, saying its troops are overstretched. The US strikes are deeply unpopular among the Pakistani public, who see military action on Pakistani soil as a breach of national sovereignty and say some attacks have killed innocent civilians. Washington says the strikes have killed a number of high-value targets, including the former Pakistani Taliban chief Baitullah Mehsud. 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