Tag: Militants

French police detained seven suspected militants, including one Indian, on Tuesday in a raid linked to an investigation into militant networks in Pakistan, a...

French police captured seven suspected militants in raids in Paris and its suburbs, officials said Tuesday, as France tightened security in the wake of...

At least three insurgents were killed in Malabanda area of Lower Dir during a clash with security forces on Tuesday. According to a private television...

Two security personnel were killed and two others injured when a convoy was attacked by militants with an Improvised Explosive Device (IED) in the...

Militants took position in a market to shoot at the Governor Office in Kandahar province on Saturday, an official said. The firing was continuing...

PESHAWAR - At least 80 militants belonging to the Sagi and Jhanda Masood area in Tehsil Saf of Mohmand Agency lay down their arms and surrendered.
According to a private TV channel, the militants were wanted by the government for involvement in terrorist activities.
After efforts by the Safi Aman Committe, militants lay down their arms in front of the administration at a ceremony in Sagi and pledged that they would remain peaceful and would not use arms again.

PESHAWAR - At least three militants were gunned down in a clash with police at Hayatabad Industrial Estate in the wee hours of Monday. The encounter also left a police officer dead and a constable injured. The incident occurred when dozens of militants attacked a police post at Hayatabad Industrial estate before the dawn. They killed an assistant sub inspector (ASI), Sajid Khan and injured one police constable.
In retaliation, the policemen cordoned off the militants and killed

SWAT/PESHAWAR - At least seven miscreants were killed during a clash with the security forces just on the borders with Lower Dir in the Matta area of Swat Valley. The officials said a group of militants was attempting to enter Swat.
The security forces directed them to stop, but they opened fire. After a brief shootout, all the seven militants were shot dead while two soldiers sustained injuries. The killed militants were coming from Mohmand Agency to Shangla district via Dir and

SWAT - Security forces on Sunday killed at least seven militants here, while security personnel lost his live during clash with militants in Mohmand Agency.
According to a private TV, a group of militants were tried to enter in Dir through Bajur Agency. The militants opened fire on security forces when they reached on a mountain.
A soldier was injured in the firing. Security forces opened fire in retaliation, killed seven militants. The forces also recovered arms and

ISLAMABAD - Saudi Arabia has sought Pakistan's help for the arrest of three Al Qaeda-linked militants allegedly hiding in Waziristan and believed to have masterminded the 2009 suicide attack on Prince Muhammad bin Nayef, the Saudi deputy interior minister, who has been at the forefront of the Kingdom's efforts to eradicate terrorism.
Prince Muhammad, son of Interior Minister Prince Nayef, survived assassination attempt in August 2009. Abdullah Hassan Al Aseery, a suicide bomber

KHAR - Pakistani officials said Friday that 50 militants and four soldiers had been killed in a district where the United States this week criticised the army's efforts to defeat insurgents.
The deaths, which could not be verified independently, were reported in Mohmand, tribal belt on the Afghan border singled out for criticism in a White House report flatly rejected by Islamabad.
Local administration official Maqsood Hassan told AFP that militants attacked a security force

PESHAWAR - At least four security personnel were killed and eight others injured in an attack by militants in Waleed Koroona area of Mohmand Agency's Baezai tehsil on Thursday, while the forces killed at least 25 Taliban in attacks on various hideouts.
Reports said a large number of militants attacked a Frontier Corps checkpost in Baezai. Officials in Mohmand administration claimed that 10 militants were killed and five injured in retaliatory action. Meanwhile, Mohmand

KUNDUZ - A 10-member group of Taliban insurgents renounced insurgency and joined government-initiated peace process in Kunduz province, some 250 km north of the capital city of Kabul, provincial police spokesman said.
"The 10-memeber Taliban group led by Salahuddin renounced insurgency and joined government in Imam Sahib District this morning," Mohammad Harroon said.
He said the ex-insurgents also handed over 10 weapons to security authorities in the district.
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PESHAWAR - Two militants including a commander were killed and two others injured as in an ambush at Bagan, border area of Kurram Agency near Hangu on Tuesday morning. The reports reaching here said that the militant commander, Noor Mohammad, along with his two accomplices riding a vehicle, when unidentified armed men attacked them.
The assailants also hurled a grenade on the militants' vehicle. Noor Mohammad and Fazal Mehmood died on the spot while two others were injured in the

PESHAWAR - Some unidentified miscreants blew up two government primary schools and a basic health unit in Halimzai tehsil of Mohmand Agency in the wee hours of Tuesday. A source within the political administration told to Pakistan Today that militants destroyed two schools and a basic health unit by explosives.
"The miscreants had planted explosives at the government-run primary schools and healthcare centre that caused partial damage to the buildings," the source said.

PESHAWAR - At least 15 militants were killed and several of their hideouts destroyed in operations in Toor Chappar area of Darra Adam Khel and Tirah Valley of Khyber Agency. According to the officials, the security forces launched the action in retaliation after militants attacked a convoy at Toor Chappar, located on the border with Hangu a settled district of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, in the early hours of Sunday.
The attack claimed the life one member of the security forces. The

HANGU - At least 8 militants were killed and 3 of their hideouts destroyed in the shelling of security forces in the Central Kurram Agency whereas 5 persons were injured in the fresh missile attack by American spy planes hereon Thursday. Security Forces attacked at the hideouts of militants with heavy artillery fire in Ali Sher Zai, Chinarak and Sparkut areas. Resultantly, 8 militants were killed, several injured and 3 of their hideouts destroyed.
In addition, American spy planes