Pakistan
The Taliban killed a policeman in Bannu and attacked five NATO oil tankers in Mithri Baluchistan, destroying two of them. The wife of a man killed by a US consular official in Lahore committed suicide.
The Taliban killed a policeman in Bannu and attacked five NATO oil tankers in Mithri Baluchistan, destroying two of them. The wife of a man killed by a US consular official in Lahore committed suicide.
The Taliban executed four people accused of “spying for Indian and Jewish intelligence agencies” in Karak, and killed three civilians in Khyber. More than 20,000 people have fled Mohmand due to a military operation.
The Taliban accused the four men of “spying for Indian and Jewish intelligence agencies.” The murders took place in Karak.
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Three people were killed in a bombing at a shrine in Lahore. Three Taliban fighters and a soldier were killed during fighting in Arakzai; the Taliban also bombed a school in the tribal agency. The Taliban destroyed two NATO containers in Khuzdar.
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Fifteen Taliban fighters and three Pakistani soldiers were killed in fighting in Mohmand. The Taliban killed nine people in a bombing in Peshawar. A Pakistani soldier was killed in an exchange of fire with Afghan troops in Khost province.
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Security forces killed 21 Taliban fighters in Mohmand. The Taliban killed two Pakistanis in an attack on a NATO oil tanker in Mastung, and bombed two schools in Peshawar.
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A pair of bombings in Peshawar, including a suicide attack, are the latest in a series of attacks throughout Pakistan’s Taliban-infested northwest.
The military claimed it defeated the Taliban in an area along the border between the tribal agencies of Bajaur and Mohmand. Two people were killed in a Taliban ambush in Khyber. A court sentenced a failed suicide bomber to death.
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Security forces killed 28 Taliban fighters in Mohmand. The Taliban killed four people in two bombings in Kohat, and torched two NATO fuel tankers in Dhaddar.
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A US consular official shot and killed two Pakistani men on a motorcycle who are said to have been attempting to rob him in Lahore. One civilian was killed as Americans in a separate car raced to help. Security forces killed 12 Taliban fighters, including two suicide bombers, in Mohmand.
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Suicide bombers killed 16 Pakistanis in Lahore and Karachi; the Fedayeen-e-Islam claimed the Lahore attack. Security forces killed 18 Taliban fighters in Mohmand.
The Fedayeen-e-Islam, a subgroup of the Pakistani Taliban, Lashkar-e-Jhangvi, and Jaish-e-Mohammed, claimed credit for the Lahore attack.
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US Predators killed 13 “militants” in three strikes in North Waziristan. The Taliban killed three people in an attack on the former mayor of Hangu.