Pakistan says ground fighting in tribal belt near Afghanistan border kills about 50 militants

October 3rd, 2009 Pakistan: Troops kill 27 militants in northwestPESHAWAR, Pakistan — Pakistan's paramilitary forces say they have killed 27 militants, including two important commanders, in an ongoing operation in the northwestern Khyber tribal region. A statement from the Frontier Corps said the troops also destroyed two militant hideouts in Friday's operations.

September 30th, 2009 Officials: Missile strike kills 6 in NW PakistanDERA ISMAIL KHAN, Pakistan — A missile killed six Taliban fighters in northwest Pakistan on Tuesday, intelligence officials said, apparently the latest strike in a covert U.S. program that American officials are considering intensifying.

September 30th, 2009 Police: Suicide attack kills 4 in NW PakistanDERA ISMAIL KHAN, Pakistan — A suicide car bomber rammed his vehicle into a car carrying a pro-government tribal elder and at least three other people Monday, killing them in the latest explosion to rock Pakistan's militant-riddled northwest, officials said. The attack occurred in Baka Khel, an area just outside the lawless regions along the Afghan border where the Pakistani military has been battling Taliban and al-Qaida fighters.

September 30th, 2009 Officials: Missile strike kills 3 in NW PakistanDERA ISMAIL KHAN, Pakistan — Two intelligence officials say a suspected U.S. missile strike has killed three Taliban militants in restive northwestern Pakistan.

September 12th, 2009 Bomb kills 2 in restive northwest PakistanISLAMABAD — An official says a bomb has killed two security officers in northwest Pakistan. The attack Sunday took place in the Khyber agency.

September 4th, 2009 Army: 5 militants killed in northwest PakistanPESHAWAR, Pakistan — Pakistan says paramilitary troops have killed five suspected militants and arrested 24 in an ongoing operation in the northwestern Khyber tribal region. The paramilitary Frontier Corps announced the deaths in a statement Friday.

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 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 3rd, 2009 11 dead in suspected US missile strike in PakistanISLAMABAD — Pakistani intelligence officials say 11 people were killed in a suspected U.S. missile strike in northwest Pakistan.

June 23rd, 2009 Commander: Pakistan offensive impacts AfghanistanWASHINGTON — Pakistan's military offensive against insurgents appears to be sapping money and weapons that might otherwise be going to militants fighting on the other side of the border in Afghanistan, a U.S. commander said Tuesday.

June 14th, 2009 Pakistan tribal area sees renewed Taliban activityKHAR, Pakistan — Pakistani security forces used jets, helicopters and artillery to pound suspected Taliban hideouts in a tribal region where the army said it had vanquished militants earlier this year, government officials said Sunday. The clashes in Bajur underscore Pakistan's challenge in holding territory allegedly cleared of militants, a test likely to grow harder as the country considers staging more anti-Taliban offensives along the northwest region bordering Afghanistan.

June 14th, 2009 Officials: Missile strike kills 5 in NW PakistanDERA ISMAIL KHAN, Pakistan — Intelligence officials say a suspected U.S. missile strike has killed five people in a Pakistan tribal region.

April 27th, 2009 British PM: Af-Pak border 'crucible of terrorism'KABUL — The border areas of Pakistan and Afghanistan form a "crucible of terrorism" that Western powers must combat for their own safety, British Prime Minister Gordon Brown said Monday. Brown was on a one-day visit to Afghanistan in which he toured British bases in the south and discussed strategy with President Hamid Karzai.

April 18th, 2009 Suicide bomber kills 10 at Pakistani checkpointPESHAWAR, Pakistan — A suicide car bomber attacked security forces manning a checkpoint in Pakistan's troubled northwest on Saturday, killing at least 10 people, officials said. The checkpoint is near the Orakzai tribal region, which has emerged in recent months as a major base for Taliban militants waging war on the Pakistan government.