Two missile attacks killed 13 militants in northwestern Pakistan's tribal belt Tuesday in the latest apparent strikes of a covert U.S. program that American officials are considering intensifying.
Unmanned drones have carried out more than 70 missile attacks in the border region over the last year, but Washington rarely acknowledges the strikes. The United States says the mountainous tribal area is a base for militant attacks on American and other NATO troops in neighboring Afghanistan and a stronghold of al-Qaida's senior leadership.
One of Tuesday's attacks targeted a Taliban compound in the South Waziristan tribal region and killed six insurgents, …
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