 The operations in Pakistan are closely tied to a related drone campaign in Afghanistan, along the same border area.These strikes have killed 3,798–5,059 militants and 161–473 civilians.Among the militant deaths are hundreds of high-level leaders of the Afghan Taliban, the Pakistani Taliban, the Islamic State, Al-Qaeda, the Haqqani Network, and other organizations, with 70 Taliban leaders killed in one ten-day period of May 2017 alone.