Suicide blast kills 15 anti-Taliban tribesmen in Pakistan

Oct. 10, 2008

PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AFP) - A suicide bomber blew himself up at a meeting of anti-Taliban tribal leaders in a Pakistani region on the Afghan border Friday, killing at least 15 people and wounding dozens, officials said.

Suicide car attack kills three in Pakistan

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Nov. 17 (UPI) -- Three Pakistani soldiers were killed Monday when a suicide car bomber rammed a military checkpoint in northwestern Pakistan, officials said.

Pakistan to help resume ISAF supply

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Nov. 17 (UPI) -- Pakistani security will escort convoys taking supplies to NATO-led forces in Afghanistan to deter recurrence of militant attacks on them, an official said.

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.

Iran condemns kidnapping of its attache

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Nov. 14 (UPI) -- Iran strongly condemned the abduction of a diplomat in Pakistan's insurgency-plagued northwest region, an act Pakistan blamed on the Taliban.

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.

U.S. aid worker killed in Pakistan

PESHAWAR, Pakistan, Nov. 12 (UPI) -- A U.S. aid worker and his car driver were killed by gunmen in Peshawar, capital of Pakistan's violence-wracked North-West Frontier Province.

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.

Pakistan formally protests U.S. drone raid

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Oct. 29 (UPI) -- Pakistan said it lodged a formal protest Wednesday over a U.S. missile attack in its territory and demanded a halt to any such strikes in the future.

U.S. drone attack kills 20 in Pakistan

PESHAWAR, Pakistan, Oct. 27 (UPI) -- A U.S. drone aircraft attack in Pakistan's South Waziristan region left two Taliban commanders and 18 other people dead, an official and a local resident say.

Reports: Mehsud's brother killed

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Oct. 27 (UPI) -- The brother of Pakistani Taliban leader Baitullah Mehsud was killed by gunmen, various Pakistani media reported.

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.

Eight die in al-Qaida-tribal clash

BAGHDAD, Oct. 22 (UPI) -- Eight people died and dozens of others were wounded in clashes between tribesmen and al-Qaida gunmen in Iraq's al-Sakhriya region, 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.