Pakistan has deployed helicopters and drones to take control of a town in the mineral-rich western province of Balochistan from rebels amid ongoing fighting that has left dozens of security officials and civilians dead. Police said on Wednesday that they secured the desert town of Nushki after a three-day battle, the Reuters news agency reports. Seven officers were killed in the fighting.
President Donald Trump said Saturday that there will be very serious retaliation after two U.S. service members and one American civilian were killed in an attack in Syria that the United States blames on the Islamic State group. This was an ISIS attack against the U.S., and Syria, in a very dangerous part of Syria, that is not fully controlled by them, he said in a social media post.
