At least 32 people, believed to be pro-Taliban militants, have been killed in a missile attack in a tribal region of Pakistan near the Afghanistan border.
It is believed the missiles were launched by US forces in Afghanistan.
A suspected training base in a village near the mountainous Datta Khel district, 60km west of Miranshah, the main town in North Waziristan, was the target of the missiles.
North Waziristan is a known refuge for remnants of Osama bin Laden's network.
Before today's attack, Afghan officials said that more than 100 people, including some 60 civilians, had died in fierce fighting over the past three days in a remote, mountainous region.
The head of the Uruzgan provincial council said the casualties had occurred during fierce fighting involving the Taliban and Afghan and NATO forces in the south of the country.
The Secretary-General of NATO, Jaap de Hoop Scheffer, said civilian casualties were extremely regrettable, but were not always avoidable.
