'ISIS' attacks Pak- Afghan border post

Pakistan militants who have pledged allegiance to Islamic State yesterday said they had attacked a paramilitary checkpoint along the Afghan border, in the first such assault claimed by a former faction of the Taliban in several months. A militant affiliated with the faction told Reuters the group attacked Damadola district of the Bajaur tribal area in Pakistan's northwest, where the military has been battling a militant insurgency since 2007, late on Saturday. There were no casualties.