Three children were killed and dozens injured in two separate attacks in South Waziristan (a tribal district in northwestern Pakistan bordering Afghanistan) on Thursday. A booby-trapped cylinder hidden near a residential settlement in the Gawa Khwa area killed a 15-year-old boy and two girls aged seven and eight — an attack Pakistani security sources attributed to the Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), which the state designates as "Fitna al Khawarij." In a separate incident, Afghan Taliban forces fired three mortar shells at a market in the border area of Angoor Adda, injuring ten people, with Pakistani officials condemning the strike as a violation of international law and a threat to regional stability.