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In this April, 20, 2007 file photo, Pakistani militant commander Maulvi Nazir meets his associates in South Waziristan, Pakistan near the Afghani border. Five Pakistani security officials said the commander, Nazir, was reportedly among nine people killed in a missile strike on a house in the village of Angoor Adda in the South Waziristan tribal region early Thursday. The officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to brief the media. (AP Photo/Ishtiaq Mahsud)

Taliban leader killed by drone missiles

Ishtiaq Mahsud, Rasool Dawar The Associated Press

Last updated Thursday, January 3, 2013 - 10:13am

PESHAWAR, Pakistan — Two U.S. drone strikes on northwest Pakistan killed a senior Taliban commander who fought American forces in Afghanistan but had a truce with the Pakistani military, intelligence officials said Thursday.

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Suspected US drone strike kills 3 in Pakistan

Ishtiaq Mahsud The Associated Press

Last updated Saturday, December 1, 2012 - 9:39am

DERA ISMAIL KHAN, Pakistan — Pakistani officials say a suspected U.S. missile strike has killed three militants in a Pakistani tribal region along the Afghan border.

Senior government official Shahid Ali says two drone-fired missiles hit a vehicle Saturday near the Sheen Warsak area of South Waziristan, killing a Yemeni militant and two others.

The attack was second this week in the same area. On Thursday, a missile strike on a house killed three alleged militants. Two intelligence officials say another Yemeni was killed in that strike.

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In this April, 20, 2007 photo, Pakistani militant commander Maulvi Nazir meets his associates in South Waziristan near the Afghani border. Pakistani intelligence and government officials say a suicide bomber targeted Nazir, a prominent Pakistani militant commander in the country's northwest, wounding him and killing numbers of people. (AP Photo/Ishtiaq Mahsud)

Suicide bomber attacks prominent Pakistani militant

Ishtiaq Mahsud The Associated Press

Last updated Thursday, November 29, 2012 - 11:31am

DERA ISMAIL KHAN, Pakistan — A suicide bomber on Thursday attacked a prominent Pakistani militant commander in the country’s northwest who is believed to have a nonaggression pact with the army, wounding him and killing seven people, officials said.

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FILE - In this May 2, 2012, file photo Afghan security personnel and NATO soldiers, right, stand at the scene of suicide car bomber and Taliban militants' attack in Kabul on a compound, housing hundreds of foreigners in the Afghan capital. The Taliban said the attack was a response to President Barack Obama's surprise visit just hours earlier. U.S. Congressional intelligence leaders said Sunday, May 6, that the Taliban have grown in strength since 2010 troop surge. (AP Photo/Musadeq Sadeq, File)

Taliban string up heads of killed Pakistani soldiers

Ishtiaq Mahsud The Associated Press

Last updated Monday, May 7, 2012 - 10:20am

DERA ISMAIL KHAN, Pakistan -- Taliban fighters killed 14 Pakistani soldiers in a key militant sanctuary along the Afghan border, beheaded all but one of them and hung two of the heads from wooden poles in the center of town, officials said Monday.

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A Pakistani police officer and local residents examine a parked car damaged in a suicide bombing in the Badhber area on the outskirts of Peshawar, Pakistan, Sunday, March 11, 2012. A suicide bomber attacked a funeral attended by an anti-Taliban politician in northwest Pakistan, killing scores of people and wounding dozens others, police said. (AP Photo/Mohammad Sajjad)

Suspected U.S. drone strike kills 6 in Pakistan

Ishtiaq Mahsud The Associated Press

Last updated Tuesday, March 13, 2012 - 9:55am

DERA ISMAIL KHAN, Pakistan -- American drone-fired missiles hit a vehicle traveling on the Pakistan side of the Afghan border on Tuesday, killing six militants from a group known to have signed a nonaggression pact with the Pakistani army, intelligence officials and a local tribesman said.

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People look at damage caused by a powerful bomb explosion in Quetta, Pakistan, on Wednesday, Feb. 8, 2012. A bomb exploded late Tuesday night in a market injuring two people, police said. (AP Photo/Arshad Butt)

US kills al-Qaida-linked militant in Pakistan

Ishtiaq Mahsud, Rasool Dawar The Associated Press

Last updated Thursday, February 9, 2012 - 11:24am

DERA ISMAIL KHAN, Pakistan -- A U.S. drone fired two missiles at a house in Pakistan's northwest tribal region Thursday, killing five suspected militants, intelligence officials said. The Taliban identified one of them as a prominent commander who has served as a key link to al-Qaida.

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(FAREED KHAN/The Associated Press) Troops of Pakistani para military force stand guard during a crack down operation against suspect militants, criminals and suspected target killers in the country’s biggest city of Karachi, Pakistan on Friday, Nov 18, 2011.

Pakistani Taliban, government hold initial talks

Ishtiaq Mahsud The Associated Press

Last updated Monday, November 21, 2011 - 8:56am

DERA ISMAIL KHAN, Pakistan — Government intermediaries have held talks with the Pakistani Taliban in recent months, exploring ways to jump-start peace negotiations, intelligence officials and a senior militant commander said.

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FILE - In this Dec. 29, 2010, file photo, Pakistani villagers carry the shrouded casket of a person reportedly killed by a US drone attack in Pakistani tribal area of Mir Ali along the Afghanistan border, during his funeral in Bannu, Pakistan. The American ambassador to Islamabad phoned Washington with an urgent plea: Stop an imminent CIA drone strike against militants on the Pakistani side of the Afghan border. (AP Photo/Ijaz Muhammad, file)

Suspected US missile strike kills 4 in Pakistan

Ishtiaq Mahsud The Associated Press

Last updated Tuesday, August 2, 2011 - 11:27am

DERA ISMAIL KHAN, Pakistan -- Pakistani intelligence officials say a suspected U.S. missile strike has killed four alleged militants near the Afghan border.

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Suspected US missiles strikes kill 11 in Pakistan

Ishtiaq Mahsud, The Associated Press

Last updated Wednesday, October 13, 2010 - 1:36pm

DERA ISMAIL KHAN, Pakistan -- Suspected U.S. unmanned aircraft launched four missile strikes at a house and two vehicles in northwestern Pakistan near the Afghan border Wednesday evening, killing 11 militants, including three foreigners, said intelligence officials.

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