US strike 'kills five militants' in Pakistan

US missiles have killed at least five alleged militants in a tribal region of Pakistan along the Afghan border – the third such attack since the US killing of Osama bin Laden, intelligence officials said.

The strike is evidence that the US is not letting up on cross-border drone strikes into Pakistan despite Pakistani officials’ complaints that the United States violated its sovereignty by killing bin Laden on its soil. Even before bin Laden’s death, the drone strikes have been the source of increasing tension in the now severely strained US-Pakistan relationship.