A suspected U.S. drone carried out a rare missile strike in northwest Pakistan outside the country's remote tribal region on Thursday, killing six people, including at least two Afghan militants, Pakistani police and security officials said, (...)
A suspected U.S. drone carried out a rare missile strike in northwest Pakistan outside the country's remote tribal region on Thursday, killing six people, including at least two Afghan militants, Pakistani police and security officials said, (...)
Pakistani police say two bomb blasts have killed nine supporters of two Pakistani politicians at their campaign offices in the country's northwest.
Police official Mujtaba Hussain says the first attack Sunday on the outskirts of Kohat city killed (...)
Pakistani officials say a roadside bomb has killed two polio workers in a northwestern tribal region near the Afghan border, AP reported.
Government administrator Yousuf Rahim says the men were going to a village to vaccinate children when the bomb (...)
Pakistani government officials say a car bomb has ripped through a crowded market in a tribal region in the country's northwest, killing eight people.
Sahibzada Anis says the Monday afternoon explosion in the town of Parachinar in the Kurram region (...)
Pakistan's air strikes at the militants' hideouts along the Afghan border Wednesday, killed up to 31 insurgents, government and security officials said.
There were air strikes in the bordering regions of Kurram and Orakzai, said government (...)
A local government official says gunmen have killed seven persons in an attack on a minibus in northwestern Pakistan.
Jameel-ur-Rehman says it was apparently a sectarian attack.
The gunmen ambushed the bus in an area of the Kurram tribal region. (...)
Gunmen ambushed a bus and killed all 10 passengers in a northwestern tribal region Saturday, AP quoted a government official as saying.
Seven people were killed on the spot and three died at a hospital in the Kurram region, said Mohammed Ali, a (...)
A Pakistani official says a roadside bomb has hit a minibus in a northwestern tribal region, killing two passengers and wounding nine others.
Javed Khan said the attack happened on Ladda road in Pakistan's Kurram tribal region on Saturday.
He said (...)
Akhir 27, 1432 / April 1, 2011, SPA -- A Pakistani official says militants have attacked a terminal in the country's northwest for trucks carrying supplies for NATO and US troops in Afghanistan, killing three Pakistani guards at the site, as AP (...)
Akhir 08, 1432, 2011, SPA -- Police say 11 people have died after gunmen ambushed a van in a stretch of northwest Pakistan covered by a new peace deal.
The dead included eight civilians. Police then killed three suspected gunmen, the Associated (...)
Military helicopter gunships attacked Taliban positions in the northwestern Kurram region on the Afghan border, killing seven militants and destroying two hideouts, a senior military official in the region said.
Meanwhile, Gunmen attacked a truck (...)
Qa'dah 24, 1431, Nov 01, 2010, SPA - A U.S. drone attack killed five people in northwest Pakistan on Monday, the Associated Press reported.
Also in the northwest, four militants stormed a police complex, killing two officers, and gunmen attacked (...)
Qa'dah 15, 1431, Oct 23, 2010, SPA -- A local government official says army airstrikes have killed 12 suspected insurgents near the Afghan border.
The helicopter gunships targeted two suspected militant hide-outs in the Orakzai tribal region on (...)
Pakistan blocked a vital supply route for US and NATO troops in Afghanistan Thursday in an apparent retaliation for an alleged cross-border helicopter strike by the coalition that killed three Pakistani frontier troops.
The blockade appeared to be (...)
Pakistan blocked a vital supply route for U.S. and NATO troops in Afghanistan on Thursday in apparent retaliation for an alleged cross-border helicopter strike by the coalition that killed three Pakistani frontier troops, according to AP.
The (...)
A bomb exploded at a meeting of tribal elders in Pakistan's Kurram region near the Afghan border on Monday, killing seven people, a government official said.
"We have reports that it happened in a jirga. The death toll could be higher," the (...)
Militants armed with assault rifles ambushed a convoy of civilian vehicles killing 16 people Saturday in northwestern Pakistan, the Associated Press reported.
Several people were also wounded in Saturday's attack in Char Khel village in the (...)
A government official says fighter jets have bombed suspected militant hide-outs in a new assault on an Afghan tribal region where the army had previously declared victory. He says at least 20 people have died, according to a report of the (...)
Suspected U.S. missiles hit a house Tuesday in a Pakistani tribal region along the Afghan border where the army has been battling Taliban fighters, intelligence officials said. At least six suspected militants were killed, the Associated Press (...)
Dozens of militants attacked a security convoy in an area near Afghanistan where Pakistan declared the Taliban defeated, sparking a battle that killed six soldiers and 40 militants, an official said Wednesday.
Fifteen soldiers also were wounded in (...)
A government official says fighter jets pounded militant hide-outs in northwestern Pakistan, killing 18 suspected fighters.
Jahanzeb Khan, a local administrator, says the attacks Sunday targeted militants in the Orakzai tribal region who had fled (...)
Militants have released 50 people kidnapped Saturday in Pakistan's restive northwest, a government official said Sunday.
Suspected militants dressed as policemen kidnapped at least 60 people in two incidents in the ethnic Pashtun tribal region of (...)
Militants dressed as policemen kidnapped about 60 people in troubled northwestern Pakistan near the Afghan border Saturday, government and police officials said.
Heavily armed militants first seized a vehicle belonging to the government power (...)
Police say militants have kidnapped about 60 people in northwest Pakistan after ambushing their vehicles in a troubled tribal region, according to a report of the Associated Press.
Area police chief Chaman Mir says the people taken hostage Saturday (...)