At least 66 Taliban were killed and another 30 injured in airstrikes and clashes with the security forces across the country' northwest on Sunday, security sources said.In Orakzai Agency, the forces said they killed at least 63 Taliban in the last 24 hours.
The sources said around 15 Taliban were killed and another six injured in a clash with the forces in the agency's Dabori area.
Three soldiers were critically injured in the clash.
Separately, eight Taliban were killed and another 24 injured in a clash with the security forces in the Bakar Ghari area of Upper Orakzai.
Also, the sources added that fighter jets attacked a Taliban-run makeshift hospital in Upper Orakzai late on Sunday, killing 40 Taliban under treatment at the facility.
Meanwhile, in Khar, four soldiers were killed when the Taliban ambushed an army patrol in Bajaur Agency, officials told AFP.
The terrorists attacked the troops during a patrol in the border town of Kharaki, 25 kilometres north of Khar.
"Four soldiers were killed in the attack", which in turn triggered retaliation from the soldiers in which three terrorists were killed, he said.