South Waziristan

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Taliban declare guerrilla war against Pakistan army

AFP South Asian Edition 6 days ago

The Taliban have hit back at Pakistan claims of success in a major offensive, vowing on Wednesday that their guerrilla war would expel troops from their stronghold near the Afghan border. "We have not been defeated. We have voluntarily withdrawn into the ...

US missile hits militants in Pakistan tribal area: officials

AFP Global Edition 6 days ago

At least four militants were killed and five others wounded in a US drone missile strike in Pakistan's tribal region near the Afghan border, officials said Thursday. The attack took place in Shanakhora village of North Waziristan, an area where Washington says ...

Pakistan Army Success

AP News 7 days ago

A Pakistan army soldier walks next to the damaged market in Sararogha, a town in the Pakistani troubled tribal region of South Waziristan along the Afghan border, Tuesday, Nov. 17, 2009. Pakistan's army took a group of foreign and local journalists to ...

APTOPIX Pakistan Army Success

AP News 7 days ago

Pakistani troops walk through the damaged market in Sararogha, a town of the troubled Pakistani tribal region of South Waziristan along the Afghan border, Tuesday, Nov. 17, 2009. Pakistan army took a group of foreign and local journalists to view recently captures ...

Pakistan army shows off gains near Afghan border

AP News 7 days ago

Militants flee bases in face of resolute Pakistan army, but is it a strategic withdrawal? A school the army says churned out suicide bombers now lies in ruins. Soldiers patrol towns once ruled by militants who gave refuge to al-Qaida. Left behind ...

Pakistan seizes main Taliban bases

Reuters US Online Report World News 7 days ago

SARAROGHA, Pakistan (Reuters) - Pakistani forces have captured most main Taliban bases in their offensive in South Waziristan and will soon fan out into the rugged countryside to hunt for militants there, commanders said on Tuesday. Soldiers have advanced faster than expected ...

Pakistan says towns cleared in Taliban offensive

AFP South Asian Edition 7 days ago

Pakistan's military said Tuesday that its latest offensive against the Taliban had captured most of the towns and population centres once under militant control in South Waziristan. Pakistan dispatched 30,000 troops into battle on October 17, vowing to crush the Tehreek-e-Taliban network ...

Suicide bomber kills 10 in Pakistan's Peshawar

Reuters US Online Report World News 10 days ago

PESHAWAR, Pakistan (Reuters) - A suicide attacker set off a car bomb at a police checkpoint in the Pakistani city of Peshawar on Saturday, killing 10 people, officials said. The city, near the Afghan border, has been bombed several times since the ...

Pakistan

AP News 10 days ago

Farmer Mossam Khan, 67, center, a displaced Pakistani tribal man from Kani Guram village, in South Waziristan, waits in line for relief supplies together with other displaced people who fled the tribal area of Waziristan along the Afghanistan border due to fighting ...

Bomb destroys Pakistani security building, eight dead

Reuters US Online Report World News 11 days ago

PESHAWAR, Pakistan (Reuters) - A suicide car-bomber destroyed an office of Pakistan's main intelligence agency in the northwestern city of Peshawar on Friday, killing at least eight people and wounding over 30, witnesses and officials said. Militants have stepped up attacks on ...

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