Militants hold up to 250 Pakistani children
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Gunmen took hostage up to 250 Pakistani schoolchildren in the northwestern town of Bannu on Monday after taking refuge in the school following a clash with police, officials said.
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Hundreds of Pakistanis who have fought alongside the Taliban against US-led forces have been released from an Afghan jail. The 368 prisoners, the last of more than 2500 Pakistanis captured during the overthrow
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BESLAN, Russia  - Hostages released from a provincial Russian school said there are at least 1,500 people being held there by armed militants, Russian newspapers reported Friday, and a local legislator announced a similar figure challenging far lower official numbers.
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WANA, Pakistan  - Islamic militants holding two  Chinese engineers hostage in Pakistan threatened to kill one on  Monday unless security forces ended a siege of their hideout.
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At least 700 students surrender at a mosque which security forces are besieging in Pakistan's capital.
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Armed militants who seized hundreds of child hostages at a school in southern Russia released two dozen women and small children Thursday afternoon but the guerrillas still rejected proposals for resolving the standoff.
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WANA, Pakistan  - Militants in northwest Pakistan attacked a paramilitary camp and up to 30 soldiers were missing, security officials said on Wednesday.
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The Pakistani army said on Saturday it had tightened the noose around hundreds of al Qaeda-linked foreign militants hiding in a rugged mountainous region near the Afghan border.
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Gunmen seized control of a school in northwestern Pakistan, taking more than 200 schoolchildren hostage before surrendering to local elders.
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Pakistani security forces secured a mosque and school complex in Islamabad on Wednesday, snuffing out the last pockets of resistance a day after an assault that killed a rebel cleric and more than 50 militants.
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An armed gang that seized a school in the southern Russian province of North Ossetia on Wednesday were holding between 120 and 150 hostages, Interfax news agency quoted a local police spokesman as saying.
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Islamist militants take children and teachers hostage in a school near the Pakistani district of North Waziristan, officials say.
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As many as 100 Pakistani paramilitary forces were reported missing Thursday in the region of South Waziristan and may have been kidnapped by local militants with suspected ties to the Taliban, an army spokesman and military sources said.
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ATTACKERS WEARING suicide-bomb belts seized a school in a Russian region bordering Chechnya on Wednesday and were holding hundreds of hostages, reportedly including 200 children.
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Gunmen took hostage up to 250  Pakistani schoolchildren in the northwestern town of Bannu on  Monday after taking refuge in the school following a clash with  police, officials said.
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Security forces have detained more than  a dozen suspected militants, including some linked to al Qaeda,  after killing Pakistan's most wanted man in a weekend shootout,  intelligence sources said on Tuesday.
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A heavily armed gang seized up to 400  hostages at a Russian school near Chechnya Wednesday and  threatened to shoot dead 50 children for any one of their  comrades killed, a senior local official said.