Militants attack, capture 12 troops in Pakistan
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PESHAWAR, Pakistan  - About 200 pro-Taliban militants attacked a paramilitary post in northwest Pakistan on Wednesday and captured 12 soldiers, an official said, in the latest incident of spiraling violence in the region.
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ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, July 18 -- The Pakistani army fought pitched battles with militants Wednesday in a restive tribal area bordering Afghanistan following an insurgent assault that killed 17 troops.
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Suspected militants attacked security forces in northwest Pakistan Wednesday, killing 16 soldiers and wounding up to 21 others in two separate strikes against military convoys, officials said.
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An ongoing battle between Pakistani forces and suspected al Qaeda fighters Sunday in a tribal area near the border with Afghanistan has left six suspected terrorists and 12 Pakistani forces dead, two government officials told
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Pakistani forces recaptured a  road tunnel leading to the volatile tribal belt on the Afghan  border on Sunday after killing around two dozen pro-Taliban  militants in a fierce battle, the military said.
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A group of militants raided two police stations in Baghdad on Friday, killing 12 policemen and wounding several others, police said.
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Security forces kill 40 militants and capture 30 in Pakistan's South Waziristan region, the military says.
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Hundreds of Islamist militants captured a Pakistani paramilitary fort near the Afghan border Wednesday, sparking fierce fighting that left seven troops and up to 50 rebels dead, the army said.
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Pakistani security forces killed 23  tribal militants but lost seven of their own men in fighting  after the tribesmen ambushed a paramilitary troop convoy in  northwest Pakistan, an army officer said.
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Islamic militants in Iraq claim to have killed 12 Nepalese migrant workers who were kidnapped last month on their way to low-level reconstruction jobs there.
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Pakistani security forces say they have knocked out several militant bases in the latest phase of their operation in the Afghan border region.
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An Islamist group has seized 12 Nepali  workers because of their cooperation with U.S. forces in Iraq,  a statement issued on the Internet said on Friday.
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Pakistan's army says it has found 73 bodies at a mosque compound in Islamabad, after battles with militants.
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Pakistani commandos stormed the hideout of Islamic militants in northwestern Pakistan on Thursday, freeing one Chinese hostage and killing five of the kidnappers, government officials said.
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WANA, Pakistan - Pakistani security forces used artillery against suspected militants Monday in the restive South Waziristan tribal region even as the army reported that fighting had subsided with about a dozen people dead.
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Security forces opened fire Friday on a stronghold of a militant cleric in northwestern Pakistan, sparking a fierce gunbattle near the scene of a suicide attack on a military truck that killed 20 people, police said.
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ISLAMABAD, Pakistan Aug. 23, 2004 - Pakistani troops acting on a tip raided a terrorist hideout Monday in a remote tribal region, sparking a shootout that left four foreigners dead and several wounded, an army spokesman said.