A suspected U.S. drone strike killed nine militants in Pakistan's tribal region on Sunday, the second such attack in 24 hours in the region, a local government official said.
The Pakistani Taliban have declared a cease-fire in South Waziristan, one of the seven semi-autonomous tribal areas in northwest Pakistan, three Taliban commanders told CNN Tuesday.
Suspected U.S. drone strikes in Pakistan's tribal region killed 18 alleged militants Tuesday night, intelligence officials told CNN.
Two suspected U.S. drone strikes killed nine people Thursday in Pakistan's tribal region, officials said, less than a week after U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton visited the nation.
A suspected drone strike killed three alleged militants in Pakistan's tribal region Saturday morning, two intelligence officials told CNN.
A suspected U.S. drone strike in Pakistan's tribal region killed six alleged militants on Monday, intelligence officials told CNN.
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Two suspected U.S. drone strikes in Pakistan's tribal region killed 21 alleged militants Tuesday, intelligence officials said.
Two suspected U.S. drone strikes in Pakistan's tribal region killed six suspected militants and 13 people respectively on Monday, intelligence officials told CNN.
About 100 insurgents attacked a security post early Thursday in Pakistan's volatile tribal region that borders Afghanistan, killing eight soldiers and wounding 12, intelligence officials told CNN.
At least 43 people -- including a former federal lawmaker and 11 suspected militants -- died in four attacks in northwest Pakistan, government and intelligence officials said Monday.
Two U.S. drone strikes killed eight suspected militants in Pakistan's tribal region Sunday, officials told CNN.
A suspected U.S. drone strike in Pakistan's tribal region killed 16 alleged militants Saturday morning, Pakistani officials told CNN.
Three soldiers and 25 militants were killed during clashes at a security checkpoint in South Waziristan, Pakistani intelligence officials said Sunday.
A suspected U.S. drone fired missiles at a militant hideout in Pakistan on Tuesday, killing four and injuring several others, officials said.
A suspected U.S. drone strike killed 12 militants and wounded four others Friday afternoon in Pakistan's tribal region, intelligence officials told CNN.
Violence raged in Pakistan's tribal region as seven soldiers died in an ambush and five people accused of spying for the U.S. and Pakistan were found beheaded, authorities said Friday.
Thirty militants were killed in airstrikes targeting hideouts in Pakistan's tribal region Saturday, the Pakistan army's spokesman said.
Five people were killed overnight when Pakistani security forces hunting for militants involved in a deadly attack earlier this week raided a hospital in the country's volatile tribal region and battled militants there, two Pakistani intelligence officials said Thursday.
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.
Pakistani troops killed at least 29 militants in clashes and air strikes in the tribal regions along the border with Afghanistan, military officials told CNN.
A suspected drone fired two missiles at a house in northwestern Pakistan on Friday morning, killing eight militants and wounding several others, officials said.
Violence flared in northwestern Pakistan for a third straight day Sunday as one anti-Taliban government leader was killed and another survived an attack, officials said.
A suspected drone strike killed at least four people in a mountainous border region where the Taliban has long operated, Pakistani officials said Thursday.
A feisty radio DJ takes on a militant commander and his illegal FM radio station in Pakistan's radio war. CNN's Reza Sayah reports.
A spokesman for Pakistan's Taliban claims the militants are making a tactical withdrawal from their stronghold of South Waziristan, in response to a two-and-a-half week long Pakistani military offensive.
Pakistan's military said Tuesday that its forces have taken over a Taliban stronghold during the ongoing ground offensive in the tribal region of South Waziristan.
Take a trip to Pakistan's tribal district of South Waziristan these days and there's no guarantee you won't get hurt, kidnapped or something worse.
CNN's Reza Sayah reports from the treacherous tribal region of South Waziristan, Pakistan, for a rare look at a region few see.
A passport bearing the name of Said Bahaji, a suspect linked to the September 11, 2001, attacks on New York and Washington, has been found in a town captured by the Pakistani military.
They come trudging up a dirt path in single file, towards a white cricket stadium in the middle of this dusty provincial town.
Refugees flee fighting in Waziristan, Pakistan. CNN's Ivan Watson reports.
Public schools reopened in the Pakistani capital Monday almost a week after two suicide bombers attacked a university, prompting authorities to shut down educational institutions across the country.
Public schools reopened in Kabul nearly a week after a pair of suicide bombers attacked a university.
Pakistani troops have seized a key village in the Taliban stronghold of South Waziristan as they stepped up their offensive against militants in the country's northwestern region.
Several suicide bombs, car bombs and land mines are wreaking havoc across Pakistan. CNN's Reza Sayah reports.
CNN's Reza Sayah reports on the Pakistani army offensive against the Taliban in South Waziristan.
Heavily armed militants put up a fierce fight on Tuesday to protect a Taliban stronghold in South Waziristan, Pakistan's military said.
The top U.S. military commander for the Middle East and Central Asia visited Pakistan on Monday as the Pakistani army battled Taliban militants in the country's northwest, U.S. Embassy officials said.
Pakistan's army said Sunday it has killed 60 "terrorists" as it battles to wrest control of part of the country from the Taliban. Five soldiers were killed in the last 24 hours of the assault, the military said.
Pakistani soldiers and militants battled Saturday in the country's vast tribal region, with more than a dozen insurgents killed in airstrikes, at least four soldiers slain in skirmishes and a key village seized by troops, the military said.
Pakistan's army chief briefed the country's top leaders Friday on the tenuous security situation as the government combats a new wave of attacks believed to have been orchestrated by Taliban militants.
Pakistani jet fighters and attack helicopters fired on militant hideouts in South Waziristan, killing more than 20 militants, a senior military official told CNN.
Four new attacks in Pakistan in eight days prompt new security concerns. Barbara Starr reports.
Pakistani fighter jets bombed a village in South Waziristan on Wednesday, killing at least eight people, said military officials and a local Taliban leader.
Pakistani military jets bombed Taliban militant hideouts Tuesday in the country's lawless tribal region, a senior military official told CNN.
At least 41 people were killed and dozens wounded in a blast Monday at a security forces checkpoint in northwest Pakistan, authorities said.
The new leader of the Pakistani Taliban vowed revenge on Pakistan, the United States and NATO forces for drone attacks along the Afghan border, two local journalists who attended a meeting with him told CNN.
A top Pakistani official says the government has information that a leading candidate to replace the Pakistani Taliban leader believed killed recently was shot dead Saturday in a gunfire exchange between supporters of senior Taliban leaders.
Pakistan says it has evidence that child suicide bombers are being trained Taliban leaders. CNN's Nic Robertson reports.
A key commander of the Pakistani Taliban has been wounded in the ongoing military offensive in northwest Pakistan, a military spokesman said Wednesday.
A suspected drone strike on Pakistan's border with Afghanistan killed five to seven people Thursday, intelligence sources said.
Twenty-five militants and six soldiers were killed Saturday night in two separate clashes between security forces and insurgents in Pakistan's tribal region, officials 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.
A suspected U.S. drone attack killed three people in a compound known to house militants in Pakistan's border with Afghanistan, local officials and residents said Sunday.
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.
The second suspected U.S. missile strike in two days killed four suspected Islamic militants in northwest Pakistan, intelligence officials said Friday.
Suspected U.S. missiles hit targets in Pakistani tribal areas near the border with Afghanistan on Monday, killing at least seven people, Pakistani intelligence sources and local officials said.
Suspected militants attacked a truck depot in Peshawar near the border with the Khyber Agency in the country's restive tribal areas, destroying NATO supply trucks bound for Afghanistan, Peshawar police said.
Gen. David Petraeus, newly tasked with responsibility for America's two wars, arrived in Pakistan on Sunday
A car bomb explosion in southwest Pakistan killed two people and wounded as many as 11 others outside a park popular with families Monday, police said.
A missile strike killed seven people Sunday at a compound in Pakistan's northern tribal border region, a Pakistani military source said.
A senior al Qaeda operational commander is believed to have been killed recently in Pakistan's South Waziristan region, several U.S. officials told CNN Wednesday.
A suspected U.S. missile strike Thursday afternoon killed as many as four people in Pakistan's South Waziristan region and injured seven others, according to an intelligence official and witnesses in the tribal region.
Pakistani troops fired at American reconnaissance helicopters
patrolling the Afghan-Pakistan border Thursday, heightening tensions
as U.S. steps up cross-border operations in a region known as a haven
for Taliban and al-Qaida militants
Pakistani security forces say they have recovered the wreckage of a U.S. drone that crashed inside Pakistan after flying across the border from Afghanistan.
British Airways is suspending flights to and from Pakistan indefinitely following the deadly bomb attack on the Marriott Hotel, the airline says.
More than 1,300 pounds of explosives were packed into a construction truck that detonated outside an Islamabad hotel, killing 57 people, including two Americans and a diplomat, officials said Sunday.
Pakistan will not allow foreign powers to violate the country's sovereignty to pursue terrorists, the country's new president, Asif Ali Zardari, said Saturday.
Missiles hit a religious school Monday in a village just inside Pakistan's border with Afghanistan, killing six people, officials and state media said.
Pakistan on Wednesday moved about 3,000 troops into a tribal region where 20 local tribesmen were slain by Taliban militants, an army spokesman told CNN.
Deadly car bombing in northwest city of Mardan. CNN's Reza Sayah reports.
The White House on Wednesday expressed concern with reports that Pakistan's new government is working on a peace accord with militant leaders in its tribal regions.
A bus carrying Hindu pilgrims plunged into a gorge in the Nashik District of India, killing at least 37 people.
President Pervez Musharraf of Pakistan played down the impact of recent attacks in a region that borders Afghanistan, saying Tuesday they were "pinpricks" that his government must manage.
A Pakistani army helicopter crashed Wednesday in the country's tribal region, killing a senior general and seven members of his staff -- including two other generals -- an army spokesman told CNN.
Baitullah Mehsud is accused of killing Benazir Bhutto. But his agenda is more ambitious than that
Pakistani military forces clashed Friday with Islamic militants in mountainous northwest Pakistan, in battles that left at least 90 militants dead and four military personnel wounded, a military spokesman told CNN.
Militants on Wednesday freed six soldiers who were among more than 100 Pakistani troops abducted over the weekend near the Afghan border, an intelligence official said.
The approximately 100 Pakistani paramilitary forces who were reported missing Thursday in the region of South Waziristan have been found and are safe, an army spokesman said.
At least 25 suspected terrorists were killed in a Pakistani airstrike on an insurgent hideout, intelligence sources say.
Two suspected al Qaeda members were killed and 11 were arrested when Pakistani soldiers raided a house near the Afghan border, local officials told CNN.
After more than two years of battling remnants of al Qaeda and the Taliban, Pakistan's government has announced it will end its military operation in the tense tribal region of South Waziristan.
Repeated searches by the Pakistani military have failed to turn up any trace of Osama bin Laden in tribal lands near the border with Afghanistan, a Pakistani army commander said.
Pakistan security forces have recovered a large weapons cache in the country's South Waziristan region, where Pakistani forces have been engaged in an operation against remnants of al Qaeda and Taliban for over a year.
A Pakistani army convoy hit a landmine Thursday in the country's South Waziristan region, killing six soldiers and wounding 10 others, intelligence and police sources said.
Pakistani troops have killed three people and wounded five others near the Afghan border while hunting Islamic militants in South Waziristan, sources said.
An ongoing battle between Pakistani forces and suspected al Qaeda fighters Sunday in a tribal area near the border with Afghanistan has left six suspected terrorists and 12 Pakistani forces dead, two government officials told CNN.
Pakistani authorities have arrested nine people linked to al Qaeda who are believed to have been involved in recent attacks in Karachi, Information Minister Sheikh Rashid Ahmed has said.
Pakistani forces have surrounded a "high-value" target believed to be Ayman al-Zawahiri, Osama bin Laden's chief lieutenant in al Qaeda, near the Afghan border. The troops reported fierce resistance from al Qaeda fighters.
U.S. and Pakistani intelligence officials believe al Qaeda terror boss Osama bin Laden may be hiding in the remote tribal areas near the Pakistani-Afghan border.
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (CNN) - Four Pakistani soldiers were killed in a rocket attack Thursday night on their base camp near the Afghan border.
Pakistani military and paramilitary forces have suspended their sweep for "suspected foreign terrorists" along the rugged, lawless border with Afghanistan, military officials said.
Pakistani military forces have launched a major offensive against suspected "foreign terrorists" along the porous, lawless mountainous border with Afghanistan, a Pakistan military spokesman said.
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