A U.S. drone attack killed 10 people in northwest Pakistan on Sunday, officials said.
The remotely-piloted aircraft fired four missiles at a suspected militant hideout in the Birmal area of the South Waziristan tribal region near the Afghanistan (...)
Taleban militants ambushed a Pakistani military convoy near the Afghan border on Sunday killing six soldiers, security officials said, as the army prepared an assault on Pakistan's Taleban chief.
Pakistan's campaign against the Taleban has won the (...)
US drones prowled the sky over Pakistan's South Waziristan on Wednesday, a day after one of the aircraft attacked a stronghold of Pakistani Taleban leader Baitullah Mehsud, killing about 70 militants.
The US attack came as the Pakistani army is (...)
Pakistani security
forces killed at least 40 militants when they repelled
an attack on a paramilitary camp in the South Waziristan region
on the Afghan border overnight, Reuters reported on Sunday.
"Militants came in force and attacked a (...)
A missile fired on
Sunday by a pilotless U.S. drone struck a militant camp in
Pakistan's South Waziristan region on the Afghan border but
there were no reports of casualties, security officials said, according to Reuters.
The drone strike came a (...)
A suspected U.S. missile strike on a Pakistani 'madrasa' (school) killed six people, on Monday in tribal lands, the Associated Press reported.
The target of the pre-dawn attack was a house close to a
madrasa used by militants near Azam Warsak (...)
At least 12 people were killed and dozens wounded when a bomb exploded on Thursday in a market in Pakistan's troubled tribal region near the Afghan border, officials said.
The blast hit a hotel and shops in a market in Jandola town in the South (...)
A blast ripped through a home in a
restive Pakistani tribal region on Sunday, injuring an army
officer, as troops continued a weapons search that has
netted more than 3,000 kilograms (6,600 pounds) of
explosives and large quantities of (...)
Two bombs exploded near army convoys
and assailants fired rockets at a Pakistani military base
in a restive tribal region, injuring two civilians, officials said Friday.
A bomb exploded close to a bazaar in Wana, the main town
in South (...)
Pakistani troops backed by helicopter gunships clashed with suspected militants, killing six fighters and losing two of their soldiers Tuesday in a tribal region where hundreds of foreign
fighters are believed to be hiding, an army spokesman (...)
Assailants fired rockets Tuesday at
a Pakistani security forces base, killing a soldier and
injuring three others in a restive area where the troops
have been battling militants, an official said.
Two rockets slammed into the army and (...)
Pakistani jets pounded a suspected training facility for foreign militants _ including Uzbeks,
Arabs and Chechens _ in a two-hour barrage Thursday in
tribal South Waziristan, killing 50 people, senior
intelligence and military officials (...)
Militants fired rockets Friday at Pakistan military base in a tense tribal region where
security forces have recently fought suspected Muslim insurgents, officials said.
The two rockets missed the base in South Waziristan's main
town of Wana, (...)
A top Uzbek rebel leader wanted by authorities in his home country might be hiding in the
tense tribal region that forms the border between Pakistan
and Afghanistan, a senior Pakistani general said Saturday.
Army Maj. Gen. Niaz Khattak, (...)
A roadside bomb exploded near a pickup truck carrying paramilitary troops in this Pakistani
tribal town near the Afghan border Sunday, injuring one
soldier, an official said.
The bomb went off as the troops were patrolling in Rustam
Bazaar in (...)
Two Pakistani villagers were killed as security forces exchanged fire with al Qaeda linked militants in the tribal belt bordering Afghanistan, doctors and residents said on Thursday.
Pakistani artillery pounded mountains overnight near Shakai, (...)
Pakistani security forces battled al Qaeda-linked militants in the rugged mountain region bordering Afghanistan overnight, but there were no immediate details of casualties, residents said on Friday.
"All night we heard explosions, artillery and (...)
