-
News Source: Press TV
| about 1 year ago
Officials said on Saturday that three soldiers, including two army officers, were also killed in the fighting, which began Friday, in the Bajaur region described by the military officials as a 'center of gravity' for the militants. The security...
-
News Source: Guardian Unlimited
| about 1 year ago
Villagers in parts of North-West Frontier province and the tribal territory, faced with the violent advance of the Pakistani Taliban, are starting to organise an armed indigenous resistance in the absence of help from the state. The resistance has...
-
News Source: Jang.com.pk
| about 1 year ago
Military officials on Friday said around 1,000 militants, five of them important foreign and local commanders, including al-Qaeda's Afghanistan chief Abu Saeed al-Misri, had been killed in the two-month-long military operation launched by the...
-
News Source: The Daily Telegraph
| about 1 year ago
Qaeda and Taliban rebels, including five top commanders, in a month-long offensive near the Afghan border, the military said today. Twenty-seven soldiers also died in the operation in Bajaur, one of Pakistan's seven lawless tribal regions along the...
-
News Source: Dawn
| about 1 year ago
Security forces, backed by helicopter gunships, pounded Talibans positions in several areas of the Bajaur tribal region on Thursday and, according to officials, 10 militants were killed in a gunbattle. Troops attacked militants hideouts in Lowi...
-
News Source: Jang.com.pk
| about 1 year ago
Five tribesmen, including women and children, were killed and several others injured, some of them seriously, when military gunship helicopters fired at fleeing tribal families, mistaking them for militants at Gang village in Salarzai Tehsil of...
-
News Source: pakistantimes
| about 1 year ago
The Security Forces on Thursday continued offensive against Taliban fighters in the volatile Bajaur Agency and shelled their suspected hideouts with gunship helicopters and artillery fire, killing at least eight militants and injuring 20 others,...
-
News Source: NewKerala
| about 1 year ago
The militant hideouts were targeted in the Rashakai, Tang Khata and Loi Sam areas of the Bajaur district, where clashes erupted in August when scores of heavily armed rebels attacked a checkpoint on a strategic hilltop along a route used by militants...
-
News Source: AKI
| about 1 year ago
Pakistani gunship helicopters shot dead four militants as security forces stepped up their offensive in the Bajaur tribal areas bordering Afghanistan on Thursday. Pakistan's Geo News says security forces bombed militant hideouts in the area of...
-
News Source: Dawn
| about 1 year ago
At least 34 people, including seven soldiers, were killed in fierce clashes in the Bajaur tribal region and its adjacent Shabqadar tehsil of Charsadda district on Wednesday. Fifteen others were injured. There was a fierce clash between security...