Northwest Valley

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  Air Strikes in Northwest Pakistan Kill 20 Militants: Officials

  Air strikes killed at least 20 suspected militants in Pakistan's northwestern Shawal Valley on Sunday, intelligence officials said, more than a month after security forces moved in on Pakistani Taliban strongholds in the region.

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  Islamic State's Pakistan Chief Killed While Planting Bomb: Report

  Islamic State's Pakistan chief Hafiz Muhammad Saeed was killed when a roadside bomb he was planting went off in the country's restive northwest tribal region, according to a media report.

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  Bomb in Toy Kills Father, 2 Children in Pakistan

  A father and two of his children were killed in northwest Pakistan today after a bomb concealed inside a toy went off inside their home.

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  US Drone Strike Kills 4 Suspected Militants in Northwest Pakistan: Officials

  A US drone strike killed at least four suspected militants in northwest Pakistan today, four intelligence officials said, the fourth such strike this year.

• 30 Militants Killed in Pakistan Military Operation in Tribal Belt

  At least 30 militants were killed on Saturday in targeted airstrikes conducted by Pakistan's military in the restive northwest tribal region, taking the total number of terrorists killed in the army's all-out offensive against the Taliban to over 260.

• First US Drone Strike in Pakistan This Year Kills Six: Officials

  The first US drone strike in Pakistan this year on Wednesday killed at least six militants in a northwest tribal district where pressure was building on Islamabad to react after a brazen attack on Karachi airport.

• Air Strikes on Taliban Hideouts Kill 15 in Northwest Pakistan: Officials

  Pakistan carried out early morning air strikes in the restive Tirah Valley area of the Khyber tribal district on Tuesday, killing at least 15 people, according to a statement by the military.

• Pakistan air strikes death toll rises to 30: officials

  Pakistani fighter jets bombarded Taliban hideouts in the troubled northwest on Tuesday, killing at least 30 in the fourth airstrikes since peace talks stalled, in what analysts say is a surgical operation to reassert the military's dominance.

• Grenade attack on cinema kills four in northwest Pakistan: officials

  At least four people were killed and 31 wounded late on Sunday when unidentified attackers hurled two grenades at a cinema in northwest Pakistan, police and medics said.

• Malala Yousafzai calls for dialogue with Taliban

  Malala Yousafzai, the Pakistani teenager who is a front-runner for the Nobel Peace Prize after surviving a Taliban assassination attempt last year, has said dialogue with militants is the only way forward for peace.

• Three women shot dead in Pakistan 'honour' crime

  Relatives have shot dead three women in a lawless tribal area of northwest Pakistan after one of them left her husband, officials said on Monday.

• 16 militants killed by troops in northwest Pakistan

  Pakistani troops overran two militant hideouts and killed 16 insurgents after heavy overnight fighting at a flashpoint near the Afghan border in which two soldiers also died, the military said Sunday.

• 30 Pakistani soldiers, 100 militants killed in northwest valley

  At least 30 Pakistani soldiers and nearly 100 militants have been killed in fierce fighting in a remote, northwest valley over the past four days following a ground offensive launched by the army, military officials said on Monday.

• Buddha attacked by Taliban gets a facelift in Pakistan

  When the Taliban blew the face off a towering, 1,500-year-old rock carving of Buddha in northwest Pakistan almost five years ago, it fell to an intrepid Italian archaeologist to come to the rescue. Thanks to the efforts of Luca Olivieri and his partners, the 6-meter (nearly 20-foot)-tall image near the town of Jahanabad is getting a facelift, and ...

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  Pakistani troops in street battle with insurgents

  Closing in on the Taliban strongholds in the troubled northwest, Pakistani troops on Tuesday encircled the militant-infested Matta town.