Pakistan says troops kill 22 militants in Khyber tribal region

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.

October 3rd, 2009 ISLAMABAD - Eleven militants and a soldier were killed Saturday in clashes in the northwestern tribal region of Pakistan that borders Afghanistan, a security official said. Fazal-ur-Rehman, a spokesman for the paramilitary Frontier Corps, said in a statement that the fighting took place during a security operation in Gurgray area of the Khyber region.

October 2nd, 2009 ISLAMABAD - Pakistani troops Friday killed 27 militants in the ungoverned north-western tribal district of Khyber that borders Afghanistan, a security official said. Fazal-ur-Rehman, a spokesman for the paramilitary Frontier Corps, said in a press statement that helicopter gunships targeted various positions of Taliban fighters in Khyber and inflicted heavy casualties on the rebels.

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 12th, 2009 2 killed in attack on Pakistani troopsISLAMABAD — A bomb blast killed two paramilitary troops Sunday in Pakistan's Khyber region, where security forces are pressing ahead with an offensive to secure a major supply route for foreign forces in Afghanistan. Also in the northwest, a suicide bomber attempted to attack a security post in the Swat Valley but was killed before he could strike.

September 5th, 2009 ISLAMABAD - Pakistani security forces demolished the headquarters of banned militant outfit Lashkar-e-Islam Saturday as a military operation against militants in the country's northwest entered its fifth day, media reports said. Security forces pounded Tirah valley in Khyber tribal agency's Bara region, destroying the headquarters of Lashkar-e-Islam, Geo news reported.

September 5th, 2009 Pakistan: 43 suspected militants killed in KhyberPESHAWAR, Pakistan — Pakistani troops killed 43 alleged militants in an operation in the Khyber tribal region while airstrikes left several more dead Saturday in the stronghold of the new Taliban chief elsewhere in the northwest, officials said. Militants frequently attack trucks along the famed Khyber Pass, a main route for supplies destined for U.S.

September 5th, 2009 Pakistan: 30 suspected militants killed in KhyberPESHAWAR, Pakistan — Pakistani troops killed 30 suspected militants and destroyed one of their bases in an ongoing operation in the northwestern Khyber tribal region, authorities said Saturday. Militants frequently attack trucks along the famed Khyber Pass, one of the main routes used to ferry supplies to NATO and U.S.

September 5th, 2009 Pakistan: 37 suspected militants killed in KhyberPESHAWAR, Pakistan — Pakistani troops killed 37 suspected militants and destroyed one of their bases in an ongoing operation in the northwestern Khyber tribal region, authorities said Saturday. Militants frequently attack trucks along the famed Khyber Pass, one of the main routes used to ferry supplies to NATO and U.S.

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.

March 29th, 2009 ISLAMABAD - Islamist militants Sunday kidnapped 11 tribal policemen following an attack on a checkpoint in northwestern Pakistan bordering Afghanistan, an official said. The gunmen forced the Khasadar policemen to surrender all weapons after laying siege to the Shin Qamar post in Khyber tribal district, a hub of militant activity.

February 24th, 2009 ISLAMABAD - Pakistani security officials Monday claimed to have killed 10 militants in the country's restive tribal district along the Afghan border. Helicopter gunships and artillery shells targeted a militants' location in the Khyber area, which serves as a vital route for supplies for NATO troops deployed in landlocked Afghanistan, said an official from Frontier Corps, the paramilitary troops fighting the Taliban.

January 18th, 2009 ISLAMABAD - Pakistan Monday closed a crucial overland route for supplies to US and NATO troops in Afghanistan, following a pre-dawn attack on a paramilitary camp in the troubled north-western Khyber tribal region, officials said. Taliban militants attacked a Frontier Corps' camp in Landi Kotal town with mortar fire early Monday, killing one soldier and wounding around a dozen more, a security official said on condition of anonymity.

January 13th, 2009 ISLAMABAD - Pakistan Wednesday temporarily closed a vital supply route for Western troops in landlocked Afghanistan, officials said. Traffic on the passage running through Pakistan's restive Khyber tribal district was halted by security forces in the early morning as they continued a sweep to clear the area of Taliban militants launching regular attacks on trucks carrying NATO supplies.

December 29th, 2008 ISLAMABAD - Pakistan's security forces opened a new front against militants in a tribal region bordering Afghanistan early Tuesday, the News Network International (NNI) news agency reported. The security forces launched an offensive in Jamrud, a main town in the Khyber tribal region, said the report.