Mir Ali or Mirali (Pashto: میرعلي) is a town in North Waziristan District, in Pakistan's Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province.
The famous Pashtun freedom fighter and tribal leader Mirzali Khan (the Faqir of Ipi) based his movement in Ipi, a village on the outskirts of Mirali, for more than 10 years.
Abu Yahya al-Libi, the number two at the time of Al-Qaeda, was killed by a drone strike carried out by United States on June 4, 2012 in Mirali.
[3] On December 30, 2021, a gunfight during Pakistani troops' raid against a hideout of Tehrik-i-Taliban terrorists in the city, killed four people.
[4][5] On August 11, 2024, heavy exchange of firing between Pakistan Army and the militant insurgents of the outlawed Pakistani Taliban was reported.