Jaish al-Adl claimed an attack in December that killed 11 officers, one of the deadliest attacks in years, at a police station in Sistan-Baluchistan’s city of Rask.The group claimed another police station attack in Rask that killed one officer on January 10.A week later, Iran said it retaliated with missiles and drone strikes against Jaish al-Adl over the border in Pakistan. Pakistan then said it carried out air strikes against ethnic separatists inside Iran.The Iranian strikes killed at least two children, according to Pakistan, while Pakistan’s strikes left at least nine people dead in Iran, according to the official IRNA news agency.The rare cross-border fire added to regional tensions during the Israel-Hamas war in the Gaza Strip, but by late January the two countries sought to ease the pressure.The porous border region of Baluchistan is split between Iran and Pakistan.Impoverished Sistan-Baluchistan province, which also borders Afghanistan, is one of the few mainly Sunni provinces in Shiite-dominated Iran.
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