Pakistan kills 4 ISIS-K intruders from Afghanistan

Pakistan said Saturday its security forces had intercepted and killed four ISIS operatives in a remote mountainous district near the Afghanistan border.

The provincial counterterrorism department said the slain men were linked to Islamic State Khorasan Province (ISIS-K), a regional affiliate of the self-proclaimed Daesh group, and had intruded into the mountainous North Waziristan border district from the Afghan side.

ISIS-K operates out of Afghanistan and plots attacks on both sides of the border. It has intensified regional terrorist activities since the Taliban took over of the conflict-torn country last year as the United States and NATO partners withdrew troops after nearly 20 years of war.