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Pakistani forces have killed 1 500 al-Qaeda and Taliban militants during a two-month operation in a remote tribal zone.

Thousands of tribesmen chanting ”Death to America” rallied against the Pakistani and United States governments on Tuesday ahead of nationwide protests over a raid on an Islamic school that killed 80 people. Pakistan launched its deadliest airstrike to date on Monday against a madrasa in the troubled Bajaur tribal region bordering Afghanistan.

Pakistani helicopter gunships on Monday destroyed an Islamic school used as an al-Qaeda-linked training camp near the Afghan border, killing nearly 80 militants, officials and witnesses said. The strike targeting a madrassa near Khar, the main town in Bajaur tribal agency, was the biggest for months in the restive frontier region.