ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, March 28 -- A deadly, 12-day confrontation between government troops and Islamic fighters in a remote tribal region reached a peaceful settlement Sunday after the militants ...

Tribal elders in a Pakistani village where a suicide car bomber killed nearly 100 people insisted Saturday that residents will keep defying the Taliban, even as the bloodshed laid bare the risks ...

The Taliban beheaded their relatives and terrorized their villages. Now army air strikes are killing the innocent, say refugees who fled fighting set off by a Pakistani military offensive against the ...

Pakistan says U.S.-led forces crossed into its territory and launched an attack that killed at least 15 people. The target of the attack was a village in South Waziristan, which is a tribal area used ...

MULTAN, Pakistan -- A Pakistani tribal council ordered an 18-year-old girl to be gang-raped in order to punish her family after her brother was seen walking with a girl from a higher-class tribe, ...

(Reuters) - Northwestern Pakistan's ethnic Pashtun lands are home to militants bent on bringing hardline Islamic rule to Pakistan, defeating Western forces in Afghanistan and launching attacks in ...

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan A missile strike apparently by a U.S. drone hit a house in Pakistan's tribal region close to the Afghan border Friday, killing at least 12 people including several foreign ...

Dozens of people have been killed in Pakistan's Kurram district in a tribal land dispute that has sparked days of sectarian fighting. The fighting between Sunni and Shi’ite tribes began in the Boshera ...

WANA, Pakistan (AP) -- Pakistani troops and paramilitary forces using artillery and helicopter gunships launched a new assault Thursday against al-Qaida and Taliban suspects in a tribal region near ...

PESHAWAR, PAKISTAN -- The reported death of the leader of the Pakistani Taliban, a violent Islamist group with close links to al-Qaeda, leaves the predatory and feared militia effectively decapitated, ...

Sept 22 (Reuters) - Northwestern Pakistan's ethnic Pashtun lands are home to militants bent on bringing hardline Islamic rule to Pakistan, defeating Western forces in Afghanistan and launching attacks ...