The Pakistani military conducted air raids potentially killed dozens while targeting alleged Pakistani Taliban militants in the rural Paktika Province of Afghanistan Tuesday night.

Pakistan launched deadly airstrikes on Afghanistan’s Paktika province, killing at least 46 people, mostly women and children. The Afghan Taliban condemned the attack as a violation of international principles and vowed retaliation.

A Taliban government official says Pakistan’s airstrikes on eastern Afghanistan killed 46 people, mostly women and children.