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NEWS ABOUT: Waziristan

Waziristan stories: 28 news summaries

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 Dozens Dead in Pakistan Blast 

Suicide bomber duo injure 40 near bank

Nov 2, 09 5:42 AM CST
(Newser) - A pair of suicide bomb blasts rocked Pakistan today, killing at least 26 people. Two bombers on motorcycles blew themselves up near a queue outside a Rawalpindi bank close to army headquarters, injuring 60, many of them women and children. "There were many people lying on the ground with... More »

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terrorism • Pakistan • United States • suicide bombing • Waziristan • drones • Pakistan army

 Clinton: Pakistan Has to Fight 

Terrorism fight a no-brainer, she tells students

Oct 29, 09 6:57 AM CDT
(AP) - Hillary Clinton said today that Pakistan had little choice but to take a more aggressive approach, starting last summer, in combating the Taliban and other extremists that threaten to destabilize the country. In a lively give-and-take with students at the Government College of Lahore, Clinton said inaction by the government... More »

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Hillary Clinton • Taliban • terrorism • Pakistan • secretary of State • Waziristan • drones • Islamist extremists

 US Secretly Speeds 
 Pakistan Military Aid 

Washington funnels helicopters, arms, technology for Taliban fight

Oct 29, 09 6:42 AM CDT
(Newser) - The Pakistani government keeps insisting that the US has little to no role in its offensive in Taliban-controlled border regions—but out of sight, Washington has funneled hundreds of millions of dollars worth of arms and equipment to the country's forces this year. President Obama himself intervened at one point... More »

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Barack Obama • Pentagon • Pakistan • Waziristan • Swat • US military aid • Pakistan army • South Waziristan

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 Bomb Kills 80 as 
 Clinton Arrives 
 in Pakistan 

More than 100 injured in attack on family market in Peshawar

Oct 28, 09 7:55 AM CDT
(Newser) - At least 80 people were killed today when a bomb ripped through a busy market in Peshawar, hours after Secretary of State Hillary Clinton arrived in the country to show American support for its campaign against Islamist militants. Clinton, on her first official visit to the country as secretary of... More »

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Hillary Clinton • Taliban • Pakistan • Peshawar • bombing • Waziristan • Islamist extremists • North West Frontier Province

Brigadier Assassinated
in Islamabad

Head of UN mission killed as army pushes into Taliban heartland

Oct 22, 09 4:04 AM CDT
(Newser) - A top army officer was gunned down in the Pakistani capital today as the military continued to push into the Taliban's Waziristan sanctuary. Brigadier Moinudin Ahmed, head of the UN peacekeeping mission in Sudan, was shot dead  along with his driver by suspected militants on a motorbike as their jeep... More »

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Taliban • Pakistan • Islamabad • Waziristan • Pakistan army • South Waziristan

UPDATED

 Pakistan Army Launches 
 Assault on Taliban 

Military readies all-out offensive on militants' South Waziristan stronghold

Oct 17, 09 7:03 AM CDT
(Newser) - More than 30,000 Pakistani soldiers launched a major assault on the Taliban's sanctuary in Waziristan early today, following months of airstrikes intended to soften up militant defenses. Officials have given few details but said the troops are pursuing militants holed up in the region. Civilians have been evacuated from... More »

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Taliban • Pakistan • Waziristan • al-Qaeda • Pakistan army • South Waziristan • terrorist camp

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 Deadly Wave of 
 Pakistan Attacks 
 Kills 38 

Government warns of 'guerrilla war' after blasts in Lahore, northwest

Oct 15, 09 7:11 AM CDT
(Newser) - Pakistan erupted in violence today as three teams of militants launched coordinated strikes on law enforcement buildings in Lahore and a suicide car bomber struck a police station in the country's northwest. A few hours later another blast rocked a school in Peshawar, near the Afghan border, killing at least... More »

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Taliban • Pakistan • Islamic extremists • car bomb • Waziristan • Lahore • South Waziristan

Pakistani, Afghan Taliban Unite Against US

Commanders agree to settle differences to counter US surge

Mar 27, 09 2:31 AM CDT
(Newser) - Pakistan's Taliban leaders have pledged to scale back their battle against the government to help their Afghan counterparts fight the US surge, the New York Times reports. The leaders issued a statement promising to settle their internal differences to "bring dishonor on the infidels" after a visit from a... More »

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Afghanistan • Taliban • Pakistan • Waziristan • Mullah Omar

(Newser) - CIA-directed air raids into Pakistan have “decimated” al-Qaeda’s senior leadership, killing up to a dozen high-level targets, senior US military officials tell NPR. They say a “complete al-Qaeda defeat” there is now entirely possible. “The enemy is really, really struggling,” says one official. “These... More »

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Afghanistan • War on Terror • terrorism • Pakistan • Waziristan • Afghan border • airstrike • al-Qaeda

(Newser) - Missiles launched by the US military struck a village in Pakistan's border region this morning killing at least six people, Pakistani officials told the Guardian. Two missiles were fired by a pilotless drone after it was shot at by tribesmen, reportedly striking the home of a local Taliban commander. The... More »

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Taliban • Pakistan • US military • Waziristan • airstrike • tribal areas

 US Drone Downed in Pakistan 

Pakistan claims US spy craft crash-landed near Afghan border

Sep 24, 08 7:27 AM CDT
(Newser) - The Pakistani military says it has recovered the wreckage of an American spy drone in the tense Afghan border region. Local tribesmen had earlier claimed to have shot the drone down, but Pakistani officials said the wreckage had no bullet holes, and apparently was downed by a malfunction. US officials... More »

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Pakistan • Waziristan • drones • spy drones

US Missile Strike
Kills at Least 10 in Pakistan

New fuel for tensions between US and Pakistan


Sep 12, 08 5:59 AM CDT
(Newser) - A US missile attack killed at least 10 people today in northwest Pakistan, where many al-Qaeda and Taliban militants are based, Reuters reports. Drones fired missiles at a former government school that housed militants and their families in the latest move in  a heated US-Pakistan disagreement over militants in the... More »

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Afghanistan • Taliban • Pakistan • Waziristan • militant • al-Qaeda • missile strike

 Bush Ordered 
 Raids Without 
 Pakistan OK 

White House suspicious of Pakistan intelligence ties to militants

Sep 11, 08 3:54 AM CDT
(Newser) - President Bush green-lighted orders allowing American special forces to conduct raids inside Pakistan without the approval of the Pakistani government, senior US officials told the New York Times. One raid took place last week and more are expected as the US steps up its actions against al-Qaeda militants—despite the... More »

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Afghanistan • Pakistan • US military • Waziristan • Afghan border • Asif Ali Zardari • tribal areas • al-Qaeda

Next Wave of Terrorist Plotters: White Men

Concern grows over US, EU citizens trained in Pakistan

Sep 9, 08 2:05 PM CDT
(Newser) - US officials are increasingly worried that the next terror attack could be perpetrated by Americans or citizens of the European Union, MSNBC reports. Three German citizens—two ethnically German—were arrested last week in a plot to destroy a club frequented by US military personnel. The arrests have drawn attention... More »

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Taliban • terrorism • Pakistan • terror plots • Waziristan • al-Qaeda • domestic terrorism • Tehrik-e-Taliban • 9/11 attacks

 US Ground Forces
 Raid Pakistan Outposts

Angry Pakistan protests first incursion by American commandos

Sep 4, 08 2:48 AM CDT
(Newser) - American commandos raided al-Qaeda encampments inside Pakistan yesterday, the New York Times reports. The US has carried out air strikes in the region before but this is the first acknowledged ground raid inside Pakistan's border with Afghanistan, long suspected of being the hideout of Osama Bin Laden. The commandos were... More »

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Afghanistan • Taliban • Pakistan • US military • Waziristan • Pakistan militants • South Waziristan

Pakistan Condemns US Air Strike That Killed 11 Troops

...which were reportedly working with the Taliban

Jun 11, 08 9:46 AM CDT
(Newser) - At least 11 Pakistani soldiers and 10 other people were killed today in an ugly border incident that could strain US/Pakistani ties. US fighters reportedly launched an air strike inside Pakistan’s mountainous tribal area, backing up Afghan troops fighting Taliban forces. The matter was complicated, however, because Pakistani troops... More »

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Afghanistan • Taliban • Pakistan • Waziristan • Afghan Army • Afghan border • airstrike • Pakistan army

Pakistan Cuts Off Talks With Militant Tribes

US saw increase in groups' activity in Afghanistan during lull

Jun 5, 08 9:16 AM CDT
(Newser) - Pakistan is suspending talks with militant tribes along its lawless border with Afghanistan, the Wall Street Journal reports, a move that could bolster relations with the US. Negotiations won’t resume until the warlords agree to new conditions, including an end to activities within Afghanistan, Pakistani officials told the Bush... More »

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Bush administration • Taliban • Pakistan • Waziristan • Baitullah Mehsud • tribal areas • al-Qaeda • tribal chiefs

Pakistan's New Leaders
Balk at Giving US Free Rein

Unilateral action against terror targets would be 'counter-productive'

May 9, 08 12:13 PM CDT
(Newser) - If the US was hoping the new government would give it leeway to strike at al-Qaeda within Pakistan, those hopes were dashed today, as the ruling coalition said such attacks would be “counter-productive.” Pakistan had been a US ally in the war on terror under President Pervez Musharraf,... More »

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Taliban • Pakistan • Waziristan • Pakistan militants • Pakistan military • US-Pakistan relations

Al-Qaeda Is Still Worst Terrorist Threat: US

Safe havens in Pakistan have helped group recharge

Apr 30, 08 4:21 PM CDT
(Newser) - Al-Qaeda remains the terrorist group that most threatens the US, Reuters reports. An annual State Department survey of worldwide terrorist activity, out today, said the group killed 5,400 civilians—50% Muslims—in 2007. Though weaker now than in 2001 due to multilateral anti-terrorism efforts, the group has used the... More »

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Iraq • War on Terror • terrorism • Pakistan • jihad • State Department • Islamic extremists • Waziristan • al-Qaeda • Islamic terrorism • terrorist attack

US Steps Up Secret
Pakistan Air Strikes

Predators hammer al-Qaeda strongholds before Pakistan cracks down

Mar 27, 08 6:09 AM CDT
(Newser) - The US is stepping up air strikes on suspected al-Qaeda strongholds in Pakistan, the Washington Post reports. The Predator bombings—which neither the US or Pakistan will officially confirm—aim to rattle terror leaders out of hiding before the country's new leaders are expected to demand the US scale back... More »

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Pakistan • Pervez Musharraf • Islamic extremists • Waziristan • Nawaz Sharif • Pakistan militants • Predator • airstrike • al-Qaeda

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