Topic: South Waziristan
WANA, Pakistan (Reuters) - Deep in Pakistan's unruly tribal areas, army engineers protected by soldiers on mountaintops spend hours every morning combing the earth for Taliban bombs before embarking on a special mission.After determining there is no danger, they use machinery ...
PESHAWAR (Reuters) - Thirteen Taliban militants were killed in a suspected U.S. drone attack in Pakistan's South Waziristan region this week, security officials and tribal sources said Friday.Security sources said there was strong evidence that Taj Gul Mehsud, a senior ...
A US drone strike in a restive Pakistani tribal area on Friday killed at least four militants, local security officials said.The unmanned aircraft fired two missiles, hitting a house in the Shin Warsak area of South Waziristan, a tribal district, wounding ...
A bomb attack on Monday wounded at least 10 Pakistani soldiers in the Taliban and Al-Qaeda hotspot of Waziristan on the Afghan border, officials said.The device was detonated by remote control as a military vehicle passed through the Sararogha village area ...
A Pakistani soldier was killed on Sunday as troops foiled an attempt by a suicide bomber to attack a military checkpost near the Afghan border, officials said.The bomber's explosives detonated when he was shot outside the Chag Malai post seven ...
DERA ISMAIL KHAN, Pakistan (Reuters) - Suspected Taliban militants stormed a police station in a town in northwestern Pakistan on Saturday, killing at least five policemen, police and witnesses said.Armed with hand grenades and automatic weapons, at least three assailants attacked the ...
MIRANSHAH, Pakistan, Jun (Reuters) - A missile strike by a suspected U.S. drone killed at least eight militants in Pakistan's Waziristan region on Wednesday, intelligence officials said, the latest attack in the tribal belt regarded as global hub of Islamist insurgents ...
WANA, Pakistan (Reuters) - Missile strikes by a suspected U.S. drone aircraft on Monday killed at least 17 militants in Pakistan's South Waziristan, intelligence officials said, following reports that a top al Qaeda operative was killed in the region last week ...
Taliban kidnap 23 Pakistani tribesmen showing their strength despite army offensiveIntelligence officials and tribal elders say the Pakistani Taliban have kidnapped 23 tribesmen who recently met the army chief.Taliban spokesman Azam Tariq says the abductions are a warning to civilians that ...
Pakistani security officials said Thursday that a wanted Taliban commander had been killed in fighting with government troops in the tribal belt bordering Afghanistan."Asmatullah Bhetani was killed in a gunfight with security forces in South Waziristan on the night between December ...
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