[1][2] In 2003 the hunt for Osama bin Laden was said by U.S. officials to be narrowed to a 40-square-mile (104 km2) section of South Waziristan, namely the area covering the towns Angur Ada and Wana.

[1] On September 3, 2008, a raid was conducted by a US military force on Angur Ada in which 20 civilians, including at least 3 women and 4 children, were killed.

[3] This is not the first time Afghan based US troops cross the Afghan-Pakistani border in pursuit of enemy fighters, but was the first to be widely reported.

[2] Pakistan on May 21, 2016, handed over a purpose-build border crossing facility at Angoor Ada to Afghan authorities.

“With aim to strengthen brotherly relations with Afghanistan besides strategic intent to improve border management, the border-crossing facility was handed over to Afghan authorities at Angoor Ada, a buffering town,” the director general of Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR), Lt. Gen. Asim Bajwa, tweeted.