Operation Khyber

Operation Khyber
Part of Insurgency in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and the War on terror
Khyber Agency is the yellow colored region
Date 7 October 2014 – 21 August 2017 Location Khyber Agency, FATA, Pakistan Result Pakistani victory Area cleared of militants; militant bases dismantled[3] Khyber returned to government control
Belligerents
Pakistan	Lashkar-e-Islam[1] Jamaat-ul-Ahrar Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan[1] Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant – Khorasan Province[2]
Commanders and leaders
President Mamnoon Hussain Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi (2017) Nawaz Sharif (2014–2017) Army Chief Qamar Javed Bajwa (2016–2017) Raheel Sharif (2014–2016) Chairman JCSC Zubair Hayat (2016–2017) Rashad Mahmood (2014–16) DG ISI Naveed Mukhtar (2016–2017) Rizwan Akhtar (2014–2016) Air Chief Tahir Rafique Butt Naval Chief Muhammad Zakaullah	Mangal Bagh † Mullah Fazlullah † Omar Khalid Khorasani †
Units involved
Pakistan Army 21st Artillery Division  Pakistan Air Force Frontier Corps[4][5]	Unknown
Casualties and losses
During Operation: 4 killed[6] (as of 3 January 2015) 11 injured[6]	In Pakistani offensive: 280+ killed[6] (as of 3 January 2015) 400 surrendered[6]

Khyber was the code-name for a 2014–2017 military offensive conducted by Pakistan's military in the Khyber Agency in four phases; Khyber-1, Khyber-2, Khyber-3 and Khyber-4.

Khyber Agency was among Pakistan's seven semi-autonomous tribal districts near the Afghan border, rife with insurgents and militants. Terrorist organisations including Al Qaeda and ISIS have had presence there. The plains of Bara held strategic significance for militant groups as they connect the agency to the outskirts of Peshawar. The key area also straddled the NATO supply line into Afghanistan. The region has been long fought over by a mix of militant organisations, including the Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), the Ansar ul Islam and Mangal Bagh's Lashkar-e-Islam.