Frontier Insurgency Spills Into a Pakistani City
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Escalating political tension has made Peshawar a target of Islamic militants, who have encroached from nearby tribal areas.
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Hundreds of insurgents arrive from other cities amid airstrikes by the US, which sees the city as a terrorist haven. By wire services.
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Along with a brewing Shi'a civil war,  officials in Diwaniyah are seeing an influx of al-Qaeda and Sunni insurgent elements
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Fighting spread in Pakistan's volatile borderlands on Friday as the military pounded hideouts of Taliban militants who had hijacked ammunition supply trucks, killing up to 30 suspected rebels, the army said.
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A police raid in Pakistan's northwest Saturday triggered a shootout that killed three officers and a militant and led the insurgents to use women and children as human shields, officials said.
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Thousands of Pakistanis are  fleeing a tense northwestern town and outlying villages amid  fears of a showdown between the security forces and an Islamist  militant Taliban-style movement, residents said.
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The Pakistani military says it has knocked out several militant bases in the Afghan border region.
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MINGORA, Pakistan  - Thousands of Pakistanis are fleeing a northwestern town and outlying villages because they fear a showdown between the security forces and an Islamist militant Taliban-style movement, residents said.
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ISLAMABAD, Pakistan - Pakistani troops backed by artillery and aircraft attacked two suspected terrorist hideouts near the rugged Afghan border on Saturday, security officials said.    The attack was launched near Shakai in the South Waziristan tribal region, scene of several military counterterrorism operations against al-Qaida fugitives and renegade tribesmen in the recent months...
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Pakistani forces have raided two suspected terrorist hideouts near the rugged Afghan border on Saturday, security officials said. The raid occurred near Shakai in the South Waziristan tribal region that has
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ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, July 11 -- A commando raid that was expected to be a quick operation to subdue Islamic radicals in the Red Mosque turned into a marathon battle Tuesday and Wednesday, with elite Pakistani forces sweeping through underground bunkers in nearly two days of intense combat.
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PAKISTAN WANA -- Pakistani warplanes pummeled a suspected Al Qaeda training facility near the border with Afghanistan yesterday, flattening a vast mud-brick compound and killing at least 50 fighters, the military said. The assault was among the fiercest in months of fighting in the border region, considered a possible hideout for Osama bin Laden and his deputy, who are still ...
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A suspected missile attack Tuesday on a militant hide-out in a remote area of northwestern Pakistan near the Afghan border killed more than 20 insurgents, security officials said.
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WANA, Pakistan - Pakistan says it has Islamic militants in the rugged tribal belt bordering Afghanistan on the run after a protracted and hard-fought military campaign.
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Hundreds of Pakistani troops took up positions in two northwest towns bordering Afghanistan amid reports of an offensive by Afghan forces, officials and residents said.
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The Qaeda network accused by Pakistanâs government of killing Benazir Bhutto is increasingly made up not of foreign fighters but of homegrown militants.
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ISLAMABAD, Pakistan -- Islamic militants in Pakistan attacked a fort near the Afghan border Tuesday, one of two clashes with government forces that left seven troops and 37 fighters dead, the army said. In Europe, President Pervez Musharraf said border attacks were "pinpricks" that his government...