PESHAWAR, Pakistan (Reuters) - A senior militant commander linked to the kidnap of a U.S. soldier was killed on Friday in a suspected U.S. drone strike in Pakistan's ethnic Pashtun tribal region on the Afghan border, security and militant sources said.
Sangeen Zadran was the operational commander in Pakistan's tribal areas for the Haqqani network, which regularly attacks U.S. forces in Afghanistan from its mountain hideouts in Pakistan. He also served as the Taliban's shadow governor of Afghanistan's Paktika province.
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