A female suicide bomber in northwestern Pakistan killed at least eight people and wounded 26 more in an attack outside a local civilian hospital on Sunday, local officials said.
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A Pakistani lawmaker who escaped a deadly clash between the military and activists over the weekend was arrested on Thursday after surrendering to authorities, according to an elder in his constituency that borders Afghanistan.
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A faction of Pakistan-based sectarian militants Lashkar-e-Jhangvi on Saturday claimed responsibility for twin bombs that hit a market in the northwestern town of Parachinar, killing at least 50 people ahead of the holiday marking the end of (...)
Six Pakistanis working for a Polish oil and gas surveying company have been kidnapped in northwestern Pakistan, military sources told Reuters, years after a Polish engineer from the same company was beheaded by Pakistani militants.
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Missile-firing U.S. drone aircraft killed at least 16 people on Friday in an attack in northwest Pakistan, Reuters cited two Pakistani intelligence officials as saying.
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Abu Yahya Al-Libi, one of Al-Qaeda's top strategists and seen as the most prominent figure in the network after leader Ayman Al-Zawahri, may have been killed in a drone strike in Pakistan, Pakistani intelligence officials said Tuesday.
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Militants stormed a prison in Pakistan in the dead of night Sunday and freed nearly 400 inmates, including one on death row for trying to assassinate former President Pervez Musharraf, police officials said.
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Dozens of French Muslims are training with the Taliban in northwestern Pakistan, raising fears of future attacks following the shooting deaths of seven people in southern France allegedly by a man who spent time in the region, Pakistani intelligence (...)
A volley of US missiles killed 15 alleged militants in northwestern Pakistan on Friday, the second such strike in less than 12 hours, officials said.
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US missiles slammed into a former school where Pakistani Taliban leaders were meeting Thursday, killing 12 people near the Afghan border in a strike that may have been aimed at the insurgents' top commander. The militant chief, Hakimullah Mehsud, (...)
A missile killed six Taleban fighters in northwest Pakistan on Tuesday, intelligence officials said, apparently the latest strike in a covert US program that American officials are considering intensifying.
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Clashes between fighters loyal to Taleban leader Baitullah Mehsud and a rival pro-government group in northwestern Pakistan's tribal belt have killed at least 70 fighters, two intelligence officials and a militant commander said Wednesday.
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A militant commander who is holding a US soldier abducted in Afghanistan said Sunday that Taleban leader Mullah Omar's council was waiting for a response to its demands before deciding the American's fate.
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Pakistani jets killed 12 suspected militants in South Waziristan on Thursday, a day after suspected US missile strikes killed up to 45 insurgents in twin strikes in the stronghold of Pakistani Taleban leader Baitullah Mehsud, intelligence officials (...)
A bomb blast in a market killed eight people in northwest Pakistan on Sunday, the latest in a wave of attacks since the army launched an offensive against Taleban militants.
Separately on Sunday, a suspected US drone aircraft fired a missile in the (...)
Pakistani Taleban leader Baitullah Mehsud claimed responsibility Tuesday for a deadly assault on a police academy in Lahore and said his group was planning a terrorist attack on the US capital.
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The latest in a barrage of suspected US missile strikes in Pakistan's northwest killed five people, but none were believed to be foreign Al-Qaeda fighters, officials said Sunday.
Two unmanned drones were seen above the town of Miran Shah in the (...)