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Pakistan Army Accuses US of 'Negative Propaganda'

ISLAMABAD - The Pakistani army on Thursday rejected what it called "negative propaganda" by the United States, hours after the top U.S. military officer accused the country's spy agency of continued links to a powerful Afghan Taliban faction. The unusually strident back and forth reflected the poor state of relations...

Captured Teen Bomber in Pakistan Vows Attacks

MULTAN, Pakistan -- His accomplices brought carnage to a Sufi shrine, but the 14-year-old suicide bomber who was captured after his explosives failed to detonate was unrepentant. "Let me go, I want to be a martyr," he said as he was being led away, according to police officer Khalid Mahmood. "I want to send all you...

Missile Strikes Kill 17 Near Afghan Border in Pakistan

PESHAWAR, Pakistan -- Three suspected U.S. missile strikes targeting a militant-riddled tribal region near the Afghan border killed 17 people today, including at least two who were retrieving bodies from the first attack, Pakistani intelligence officials said. The strikes come in the final days of a year that has seen an...

German Militants Killed In Pakistan Missile Strike

ISLAMABAD (Oct. 4) -- A U.S. missile killed five German militants taking shelter in a house in northwest Pakistan on Monday, intelligence officials said. The attack hit a house in North Waziristan. That region has been named as the source of a European terror plot that has prompted American authorities to issue a travel...

US Missile Strike Kills 5 Alleged Militants in Pakistan

MIR ALI, Pakistan (Sept. 19) -- A suspected U.S. drone fired three missiles at a house in northwestern Pakistan, killing five alleged militants in the 14th such attack this month - the most intense barrage since the airstrikes began in 2004. The house belonged to a local militant and was located in Datta Khel, a town in...

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Pakistan: U.S. Drone Strike Kills 10 In North Waziristan

A U.S. drone strike on suspected Islamist militants in northwest Pakistan killed 10 people on Thursday, Pakistani intelligence officials said, an attack likely to raise tensions in a standoff with Washington over NATO supply routes to Afghanistan.

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05/28/12 U.S. missiles kill 5 suspected Islamist militants in... Source: PanArmenian.net American missiles killed five suspected Islamist militants close to the Afghan border, the latest in a barrage of attacks that show Washington is ignoring Islamabad's demands it halt the strikes, Pakistani officials said Monday, May 28.
05/26/12 Pakistanis say drone strike kills 4 militants Source: MarineCorpsTimes.com An American drone fired two missiles at a bakery in northwest Pakistan on Saturday and killed four suspected militants, officials said, as the U.S. pushed on with its drone campaign despite Pakistani demands to stop.
05/24/12 Pakistan official: US drone strike hits mosque; 10 die Source: The Alva Review-Courier - Alva OK Updated at 4:43 a.m. ET: A U.S. drone strike hit a village mosque in northwest Pakistan Thursday morning, killing at least 10 people, a Pakistani official and witnesses told NBC News.
05/17/12 The Herald live blog: Clashes in North Waziristan Source: Dawn North Waziristan has always been in the media limelight as a safe haven for tribal and Afghan militants but the region recently created increasingly worrying news when Pakistani security personnel came under a series of deadly attacks there.
05/16/12 Pakistan's Federally Administered Tribal Areas Source: Stratfor North Waziristan is the only tribal agency in the Federally Administered Tribal Areas that Pakistan has excluded from its ongoing offensive against Taliban rebels and their transnational allies.