An improvised explosive device detonated in a village near the northwestern Pakistani city of Peshawar on Wednesday, killing 14 people traveling in a passenger van, authorities said.
President Barack Obama's public acknowledgment of drone attacks in Pakistan was no accident, a senior administration official said Tuesday.
A 27-year-old Brooklyn resident was charged Friday with providing material support to militants in Pakistan and had planned to join "radical jihadists" in the country's restive tribal region, according to a U.S. attorney's office statement.
Three schools were blown up in the Mohmand Agency of Pakistan's Federally Administered Tribal Areas on Sunday morning, officials told CNN.
Two missiles believed to be fired by a U.S. unmanned aircraft killed 13 militants in Pakistan's tribal region, a local intelligence official said Sunday.
A government official and five of his children were killed Sunday morning in a blast in Pakistan's troubled northwest, authorities said.
Pakistan's Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani made a U-turn Saturday -- first declaring that the military offensive against Islamic militants in South Waziristan had ended, then saying there is no timeframe for its completion.
A suicide bomber detonated explosives at a police checkpoint in the northwest Pakistani city of Peshawar on Monday, killing at least three people, police said.
A suicide bomber detonates explosives at a police checkpoint in Peshawar, Pakistan.
A suspected drone strike on Pakistan's border with Afghanistan killed five to seven people Thursday, intelligence sources said.
Two dozen people believed to have been kidnapped by the Taliban were still missing Wednesday, Pakistani authorities said.
Residents of Pakistan's strife-torn Swat region hope the conflict will end soon. Reza Sayah reports
The Pakistani army rescued a group of 80 students and school staff Tuesday, a day after Taliban fighters abducted the group, military representatives said.
A suspected U.S. drone attack on a village in Pakistan's tribal region killed nine people and wounded four others Tuesday morning, a Pakistani intelligence source and a regional official said.
Pakistani armed forces have killed 80 militants since launching an assault on a region recently held by the Taliban, the military announced Sunday.
Pakistani security forces say they have killed at least 16 militants overnight in the country's volatile tribal region.
A suspected U.S. missile struck a village Wednesday in Pakistan's tribal region, killing three Taliban militants and wounding four others, according to local officials and media reports.
A suspected U.S. missile strike killed eight people in in the violence-plagued tribal region in northwestern Pakistan Wednesday, a local political official said.
Gunmen target a police training academy in Pakistan. CNN's Reza Sayah reports.
Suspected Taliban militants blew up a bridge early Tuesday in the border region between Pakistan and Afghanistan, suspending NATO supply lines.
Pakistan's ambassador to Afghanistan Tariq Azizudin has been freed three months after he was abducted in the Pakistan's tribal region while traveling to the Afghan capital of Kabul, Pakistan's Foreign Ministry said.
Twin suicide bombers set off explosives at a naval college in Pakistan Tuesday, killing at least five other people and wounding at least 16, one critically, the government said.
An explosion at the funeral for a police officer killed leaves several people dead and others injured. No Audio.
At least 45 people died and 82 were wounded in a suicide attack on the funeral Friday of a district superintendent of police -- killed earlier in the day in a separate attack -- in northwest Pakistan's Swat province, according to Pakistani police.
An explosion at the funeral Friday of a district police officer killed earlier in the day in northwest Pakistan killed 30 people and injured between 50 and 55, province police said.
A resurgent Taliban is back in charge over parts of Afghanistan, the chief U.S. intelligence official said Wednesday in an assessment that differed from the one made last month by Defense Secretary Robert Gates.
A car bomb killed 40 people and wounded 90 Saturday in northern Pakistan when it exploded in front of an election office of the opposition Pakistan People's Party, the Pakistani Interior Ministry said.
Pakistani authorities have launched a search operation in the country's tribal region for Pakistan's ambassador to Afghanistan, interior ministry spokesman said Tuesday.
Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf has made it clear that a U.S. military mission to capture Osama bin Laden or other top al Qaeda leaders on Pakistani soil would be unwelcome and "against the sovereignty of Pakistan."
Pakistani troops are searching house-to-house in a cordoned off section of the country's tribal areas in an effort to find suspected al Qaeda fighters, a Pakistan security official said.
The Pakistani military's quest to nab a "high-value target" has suffered a setback with the discovery of a series of tunnels that militants could have used to escape thousands of troops who've laid siege to the area.
Tribal leaders are trying to broker an end to fierce fighting between Pakistani troops and suspected militants along the Afghan border while speculation persisted about who the fighters might be protecting.
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