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Pakistan to deport Afghans from tribal area

Oct. 7, 2008
Pakistan ordered the deportation of about 50,000 Afghan refugees in an insurgency-wracked tribal region amid a major military offensive against al-Qaida and Taliban fighters.
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Pakistan says 16 militants killed

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Nov. 17 (UPI) -- Pakistani security forces and a tribal army killed 16 militants in separate clashes in the tribal Bajaur region, witnesses and sources said.

Missile attacks kill 11 in Pakistan

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Nov. 14 (UPI) -- Missiles fired Friday from suspected U.S. drones killed 11 people in Pakistan's insurgency-plagued northwest tribal region, officials said.

14 Taliban killed in Pakistan air raids

BAJAUR, Pakistan, Nov. 10 (UPI) -- Fourteen Pakistani militants were killed when jets bombed targets in the northwestern tribal areas, officials said.

Blast kills 11 on Pakistani-Afghan border

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Nov. 6 (UPI) -- A deadly bomb exploded during a tribal meeting in the Bajaur region along the Pakistani-Afghan border Thursday, a Pakistani official said.

Tribals-militants clash claims 16 lives

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Oct. 27 (UPI) -- Members of a Pakistani tribal council clashed with militants in the Swat area of the northwest, leaving at least 16 dead, sources told Geo TV.

Eight dead in Pakistan missile attack

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Oct. 24 (UPI) -- Suspected drone missile attacks killed eight people in a theology school in a Taliban-stronghold village in Pakistan's North Waziristan tribal region.

U.S. begins training mission in Pakistan

WASHINGTON, Oct. 17 (UPI) -- The U.S. military is beginning a training effort inside Pakistan aimed at helping Pakistanis fight tribal militants, officials said.

Taliban says ready to talk

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Oct. 16 (UPI) -- A spokesman for the Pakistani Taliban told the BBC the militants operating in the nation's troubled northwest region are willing to talk with the government.

Security forces claim more militant deaths

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Oct. 14 (UPI) -- Pakistani security forces claimed at least 43 militants were killed in fighting at two different locations in the troubled northwest region.

Pakistan military says 27 militants killed

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Oct. 13 (UPI) -- Pakistani security forces say 27 militants, including 12 would-be suicide bombers, died in an airstrike in the Orakzai tribal area in the northwest region.
Pakistan seeks terrorism key, bomber hits

Pakistan seeks terrorism key, bomber hits

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Oct. 10 (UPI) -- As Pakistani lawmakers sought ways to fight terrorism a suicide bomber hit an Islamabad meeting of tribal leaders preparing to take on the Taliban, police say.

Elders say Bajaur area free of militants

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Oct. 8 (UPI) -- A part of Pakistan's Bajaur area in the violence-wracked northwest region has been cleared of militants, tribal elders claimed.

Several die in Pakistani fighting

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Sept. 29 (UPI) -- The Pakistani military said 15 militants died and several others were wounded in clashes with security forces in the violence-wracked Bajaur tribal region.

Pakistan army claims major border fighting

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Sept. 27 (UPI) -- The Pakistani army says it will defeat Taliban and al-Qaida militants in the Bajaur tribal region within three months.

Pakistani forces fire on U.S. helicopters

WASHINGTON, Sept. 26 (UPI) -- U.S. and Pakistani forces exchanged gunfire touched off by Pakistani troops firing on U.S. helicopters near the Pakistani-Afghan border, officials said.
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Lori Anne Madison, 6, competes in Scripps National Spelling Bee
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Lori Anne Madison, 6, of Woodbridge, Virginia, spells out the letters in her word as she competes during the opening round of the Scripps National Spelling Bee, May 30, 2012, in National Harbor, Maryland. Madison, the youngest known qualifier in the history of the contest, correctly spelled the word "dirigible*", a lighter-than-air aircraft, to advance. UPI/Mike Theiler