DERA ISMAIL KHAN, Pakistan — A suspected U.S. missile attack killed eight militants, including several foreigners, Wednesday in the stronghold of Pakistan’s top Taliban commander, intelligence officials said.
The strike came as the Obama administration prepares to unveil a new strategy to quell Islamist insurgents threatening nuclear-armed Pakistan as well as neighboring Afghanistan.
Wednesday’s strike damaged two vehicles near Makeen, a town in the South Waziristan tribal region that borders Afghanistan, two Pakistani intelligence officials said. Citing informants and intercepted militant communications, they said four of the dead were foreigners. Four local militants also died, while three more were injured, they said. The Associated Press
