Officials: Military, Taliban clash in northwest Pakistan, killing 3 civilians

October 4th, 2009 ISLAMABAD - Pakistani security forces killed nine Taliban fighters during weekend operations in the troubled Swat Valley, the military said Sunday. Six militants were killed in a clash with troops and police Sunday in Banjir, a mountain village located on the boundary between Swat and its neighbouring district of Buner.

September 26th, 2009 Suicide bombs kill 12, wound scores in PakistanPESHAWAR, Pakistan — Two suicide car bombs killed at least 12 people and wounded dozens in separate attacks in northwest Pakistan on Saturday, just days after the Taliban warned more suicide strikes were coming if the military pressed forward with an army offensive. Pakistan's mountainous, lawless northwest region along the Afghan border — where the government holds little control — is a favored area for insurgents to plan attacks on U.S.

September 26th, 2009 2 car bombs kill 12, wound scores in PakistanPESHAWAR, Pakistan — Two car bombs killed at least 12 people and wounded dozens in separate attacks in northwest Pakistan on Saturday, just days after the Taliban warned more suicide strikes were coming if the military pressed forward with an army offensive. A car bomb detonated outside a bank affiliated with the army in Peshawar, the capital of North West Frontier Province, killing at least six people and wounding dozens more, police official Shaukat Khan said.

September 6th, 2009 Thousands of civilians flee battles in NW PakistanPESHAWAR, Pakistan — Thousands of civilians have fled Pakistan's northwest Khyber tribal region where the latest military offensive killed 33 more suspected militants Sunday. Pakistan is under intense U.S.

August 27th, 2009 Drone attack in northwestern Pakistan kills 6DERA ISMAIL KHAN, Pakistan — A suspected U.S. drone fired two missiles at a militant hide-out in northwest Pakistan on Thursday, killing at least six people and wounding nine, intelligence officials said.

August 21st, 2009 Officials: US missile strike kills 7 in PakistanISLAMABAD — A suspected missile attack early Friday destroyed a militant hideout in northwest Pakistan, killing at least seven people, two intelligence officials said. The officials said some people also were wounded when the two missiles hit a compound in the village of Dande Darpa Khel, near Miran Shah in troubled tribal region of North Waziristan.

July 21st, 2009 Military: 50 die in clashes in northwest PakistanPESHAWAR, Pakistan — Pakistan's military says more than 50 militants and three soldiers have been killed in two days of clashes in the country's restive northwest. Frontier Corps spokesman Maj.

July 18th, 2009 Pakistani jets kill 6 militants in northwestDERA ISMAIL KHAN, Pakistan — Pakistani fighter jets destroyed two suspected militant hide-outs near the Afghan border, killing six men believed to be associates of top local Taliban leader Baitullah Mehsud, intelligence officials said Wednesday. The strikes in South Waziristan flattened the hide-outs of Mehsud's associates in two villages late Tuesday, two intelligence officials said.

July 4th, 2009 Officials say 16 killed in clashes in NW PakistanPESHAWAR, Pakistan — Clashes between tribesmen and Taliban militants left 16 people dead in Pakistan's northwest on Saturday, officials said, in the latest violence between pro-government tribal militias and insurgents. Also Saturday, the Taliban said it shot down a helicopter that crashed Friday in the northwest, killing 26 government troops.

July 4th, 2009 Officials: 16 killed in clashes in NW PakistanPESHAWAR, Pakistan — Clashes between tribesmen and Taliban militants left 16 people dead in Pakistan's northwest on Saturday, officials said, in the latest violence between pro-government tribal militias and insurgents. The fighting took place in remote Mohmand region, part of the lawless tribal belt along Pakistan's border with Afghanistan, killing 12 tribal militiamen and 4 militants.

July 4th, 2009 Pakistani airstrikes kill at least 12 militantsPESHAWAR, Pakistan — Pakistani warplanes and helicopter gunships pounded Taliban positions in the country's volatile northwest on Saturday, killing at least 12 suspected insurgents, security officials said, as the government kept up pressure on Islamist militants along the Afghan border. Elsewhere in the northwest, clashes between tribesmen and Taliban fighters left 16 people dead in the latest violence between pro-government tribal militias and insurgents.

July 3rd, 2009 Intel officials: suspected US missile strike in NWISLAMABAD — Pakistani intelligence officials say suspected U.S. missiles have hit a Taliban target in northwest Pakistan.

June 30th, 2009 KABUL - More than two dozen Taliban and three police officers were killed in a clash in northern Afghanistan and a suicide bombing and US-led coalition airstrikes in eastern Afghanistan, officials said Tuesday. Officials in the Baghlan province said a clash that lasted several hours late Monday in the Baghlan-e-Markazi district inflicted heavy casualties on the Taliban.

June 10th, 2009 ISLAMABAD - After making considerable headway against the Taliban in three districts of the country's troubled northwest, the military has opened up another front in the Bannu district, killing some 70 militants in two days of fighting. Quoting sources, Geo TV said more than 70 militants have been killed during two days of operation in Bannu's Baka Khel and Jani Khel areas.

April 20th, 2009 Officials: Violence kills 12 in northwest PakistanDERA ISMAIL KHAN, Pakistan — Pakistani security forces shelled and launched airstrikes against Taliban in the country's northwest, killing four civilians and eight suspected militants, officials said Monday. Scores of families fled the latest fighting, adding to an exodus of hundreds of thousands of residents from the volatile tribal belt along the border with Afghanistan over the past year.