WASHINGTON — US and NATO forces have killed more than 100 fighters from a Pakistan-based faction of the Taliban during two weeks of stepped-up military operations along the Afghanistan-Pakistan border, the Pentagon said Tuesday.
The intensified border operations have contributed to tension between the United States and Pakistan that reached a critical point last week, when US forces crossed into Pakistan and mistakenly killed three Pakistani frontier forces. Pakistan closed a key border crossing used to supply fuel to US forces in Afghanistan in retaliation.
Pentagon press secretary Geoff Morrell expressed remorse for what he called a mistake by US forces and said results of a joint NATO-Afghan investigation of the incident would be released Wednesday.
