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News Source: Voice of America
| 5 months ago
Pakistani officials have reported fresh fighting in the South Waziristan tribal region, where the military is preparing a new offensive targeting a stronghold of the Pakistani Taliban leadership. Officials said jets firing on suspected militant...
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News Source: Simi Valley - Moorpark Examiner
| 5 months ago
The government announced last week that the military would go after Mehsud in his stronghold in the remote mountainous region, where heavily armed tribesmen hold sway. The military also has been encouraging tribal leaders and other Taliban factions...
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News Source: Hindustan times
| 5 months ago
Pakistani security forces have killed over 30 militants in fresh fighting in Swat and the Waziristan tribal region, where the security forces carried out retaliatory air strikes after the Taliban launched attacks on several military bases. Reports...
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News Source: Xinhuanet.com
| 5 months ago
Malik Muhammad Amir Khan and Kabir Khan Berki in Salay Rogha area, leaving 11 suspects dead and five others wounded. Militants evacuated five wounded persons from the rubble and shifted them to a private hospital. The names and nationalities...
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News Source: South Africa News
| 5 months ago
Militants bombed two schools in northwest Pakistan on Monday, police said, destroying the buildings in a region troubled by frequent Taliban attacks. "A girls' primary school was bombed in Bhadha Bher village," police official Abdul Ghafoor Afridi...
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News Source: Press TV
| 5 months ago
As a full-scale anti-militants offensive in South Waziristan is yet to begin, army jets and helicopters seem to be preparing the ground by attacking militant hideouts in recent days...Dozens of militants were wounded after fighter jets attacked their...
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News Source: AKI
| 5 months ago
Military jets and artillery pounded suspected militant hide-outs in two towns in Pakistan's restive northwest, killing 27 fighters, officials said. Elsewhere in the region, a citizens' militia killed seven suspected militants. The military has...
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News Source: Simi Valley - Moorpark Examiner
| 5 months ago
AP Photo/Saeed Mamon) Pakistan's President Asif Alil Zardari deliver his speech during a ceremony marking the 56th birthday of his late wife, former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto, Sunday, June 21, 2009 in Naudaro near Larkana, Pakistan. Pakistan 's...
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News Source: Hindustan times
| 5 months ago
At least 38 militants were killed in fierce clashes in northwest Pakistan's Swat valley and the tribal region of South Waziristan, the military said on Saturday as troops continued an offensive against the Taliban. "During (the) last 24 hours, 38...
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News Source: Hindustan times
| 5 months ago
Pakistani warplanes resumed strikes against militant hideouts in South Waziristan on Saturday, security officials said, with more than 30 insurgents killed in the Afghan border tribal region in the past 24 hours. After securing much of the scenic...