Pakistan-United States skirmishes

Pakistan-United States skirmishes
Part of the War in Afghanistan (2001–14)
Date 10 June 2008 – 4 July 2012 (4 years, 3 weeks and 3 days) Location Durand Line, Western Pakistan, Afghanistan-Pakistan Border Result No conclusive overall result
Belligerents
United States	Pakistan
Commanders and leaders
Barack Obama Hillary Clinton Leon Panetta Gen David Petraeus Gen John Allen Adm Mike Mullen Gen Tommy Franks Gen Stanley McCrystal	Yousaf Raza Gillani Asif Ali Zardari Hina Rabbani Khar Gen Ashfaq Pervez Kiani Gen Shamim Wynne Adm Nouman Bashir ACM Rao Suleman Gen Masood Aslam
Units involved
ISAF Coalition Forces USAF Afghan Command U.S. Forces–Afghanistan NATO Afghanistan Mission CST Afghan Command	Western Command XI Corps Northern Air Command Northern Command Paramilitary Command
Casualties and losses
None	42 killed 17 wounded 3 border posts destroyed

Western Command

The border skirmishes between the United States and Pakistan were the military engagements and confrontations between Pakistan and the United States that took place along the Afghanistan-Pakistan border from late 2008 to late 2012 resulting in the loss of 42 Pakistani lives with no loss of Americans. These incidents involved the U.S. Forces-Afghanistan Command and ISAF forces, who had been present in Afghanistan fighting Taliban and al-Qaeda insurgency, and the unified Western military command of the Pakistan Armed Forces against one another in a series of skirmishes that ceased shortly after the 2011 NATO attack in Pakistan. The two sides ultimately made peace and continued collaboration operations against insurgent groups in Pakistan following an official, however brief, apology from then-U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on 3 July 2012 over the loss of life suffered by the Pakistani military.

Since the beginning of the war on terror in 2001 and the subsequent U.S. invasion of Afghanistan to oust the Taliban and al-Qaeda movement, the U.S. has launched several air strikes across into northwest Pakistan to target militants connected with the Afghanistan war who it alleges have fled the country and sought temporary shelter in Pakistan's bordering tribal areas. These strikes have been protested against by Pakistan, as a violation of national sovereignty, and have resulted in tense diplomatic relations between the two countries. They have also caused an uproar among Pakistan's civilian population and politicians and have fueled anti-American sentiments. Since June 2004, the United States military has launched dozens of unmanned aerial vehicle strikes against presumed Taliban targets, killing hundreds of militants and civilians. These drone strikes have been subject to heavy criticism from Pakistan, which maintains that they are not the best way to fight terror and that they will have the inevitable result of uniting the tribesmen along the border with Taliban and against the U.S. Pakistan has previously coordinated with the U.S. on missile strikes but the U.S. has since conducted strikes without informing Pakistani authorities. Pakistani troops were then ordered to counteract. Several specific actions developed, although no serious diplomatic spats on either side have been reported yet. The actions are listed below.

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