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AI guardrails. It's Friday, February 27th. I'm Daniel Bach for the Wall Street Journal,

filling in for Luke Vargas. And here's the AM edition of What's News, the top headlines,

and business stories moving your world today. Pakistan has declared open war with Afghanistan following a series of

cross-border attacks. Pakistan's defense minister said the country's patience had run out after years

of simmering conflict. The country's security forces say they've responded in full force,

striking Taliban hideouts and hitting targets in the Afghan capital Kabul.

According to the Taliban government, there were no casualties.

Journal correspondent Suna Rasmussen has spent years covering the war in Afghanistan.

Suna, just explained to us what's happening this morning.

Yeah, so Pakistan has now officially declared war in Afghanistan

after some cross-border attacks from the Afghan side of the border. This comes in retaliation,

the Taliban have said, to some attacks earlier this month by the Pakistani security forces inside

Afghanistan, which the United Nations, say, killed about a dozen

civilians. But this is part of sort of a longer conflict between the two countries between

Pakistan and the Afghan Taliban government. This can be a little bit confusing. Pakistan says it's

attacked these targets inside Afghanistan to punish what's known as the Pakistani Taliban or the TTP.

And there is a distinction here between the Afghan Taliban and the Pakistani Taliban.

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