BBC Verify has been analysing satellite imagery throughout the day, first examining flooding in Mexico and later strike damage at an oil plant in Russia-occupied Crimea.

In the wake of the latest clashes, the Taliban claimed that they “killed a large number of Pakistani soldiers”, captured their posts, seized their weapons, and “destroyed” most of their facilities in retaliation for an attack in the early hours of Wednesday.

The ceasefire, brokered late on Wednesday with mediation from Qatar and Saudi Arabia, reportedly came after Pakistan pleaded with the two nations to intervene.

Several Pakistani soldiers were killed after Afghanistan security forces retaliated to unprovoked aggression along Balochistan and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, a Taliban spokesperson reportedly said

President Donald Trump, commenting on the fighting on Sunday, said he might try to intervene to help bring peace. On September 18, Trump said the U.S. wanted to take back control of Afghanistan’s Bagram air base, near Kabul, which he said was “an hour away from where China makes its nuclear weapons.”

The TTP’s call for a Sharia-based caliphate has not only undermined Pakistan’s internal stability but also exposed its hollow claims of being a victim of terrorism when it has long been an architect of the very forces now consuming it.