Pro-government tribesmen killed 23 militants in clashes in Pakistan’s northwest in the latest violence between tribal militias and Taliban insurgents. According to AFP, elsewhere in the volatile northwest, suspected militants attacked an oil tanker carrying fuel to NATO occupation forces in Afghanistan, killing two people.

The clashes between militants and tribesmen took place in the village of Ambar in the Mohmand region, part of the lawless tribal belt along Pakistan’s border with Afghanistan where top Taliban and al-Qaida leaders are believed to be hiding.