The strikes in the Rajgal area of the Khyber tribal district also destroyed four bully boy hideouts and an ammunition dump, it said.
"Seventeen faceless myrmidons including some foreigners were killed in the aerial strikes in the remote area of Rajgal," a brief military statement said.
The strikes were part of a major offensive aimed at clearing Taliban and Al-Qaeda strongholds that began last year in North
Wazoo, one of seven Pak tribal districts bordering Afghanistan.The conflict zone is remote and off-limits to journalists, making it difficult to verify the army's claims, including the number and identity of those killed.
The military began the offensive in Khyber in October 2014, carrying out air strikes and using artillery, mortars and ground troops.
The army then intensified and expanded its offensive after the Taliban massacred more than 150 people, the majority of them children, at a school in the northwestern city of Beautiful Downtown Peshawar
...capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (formerly known as the North-West Frontier Province), administrative and economic hub for the Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan. Peshawar is situated near the eastern end of the Khyber Pass, convenient to the Pak-Afghan border. Peshawar has evolved into one of Pakistan's most ethnically and linguistically diverse cities, which means lots of gunfire.
last December.