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The Pakistani Taliban claimed responsibility Wednesday for a bombing against a Shiite Muslim procession in the southern city ...

The group was headed to a Taliban sanctuary in Pakistan’s tribal areas with the intention of training to fight against American troops, Pakistani police authorities said Thursday.

As Pakistani forces battle the Taliban, the militants' latest retaliatory attack in the Peshawar area continues a shift in strategy in which hard-to-secure city markets are targeted.

A car bomb blast tore through a crowded market in a city near Peshawar today and killed 34 people, the third terrorist attack to strike the area in three days.

A suicide bomber apparently targeting an anti-Taliban mayor struck the town of Adazai Sunday, killing the mayor and at least eight others, police said.

Pakistani forces are zeroing in on two major Taliban bases in South Waziristan region as their offensive pushes deeper into militant bastion on the Afghan border, the military said on Sunday.

Pakistani troops have seized a key village in the Taliban stronghold region of South Waziristan, a senior Pakistani military official said Saturday.

Pakistan's army said it killed 60 "terrorists" as it battles to wrest control of part of the country from the Taliban. Five soldiers were killed in the last 24 hours of the assault, the military said.

Ground troops attack militant positions in South Waziristan, a response to a wave of violence that extremists launched in the past two weeks.

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — Pakistani troops launched a long-awaited ground offensive into the Taliban and Al Qaeda stronghold of South Waziristan today, beginning what experts say will be the country's most challenging chapter yet in the ongoing war on terror.

Suspicion falls on the Taliban, who have been blamed for two weeks of attacks that have killed more than 150.

PESHAWAR, Pakistan — A trio of suicide attackers, including a rare female bomber, set off two blasts outside a police station in the northwest Pakistani city of Peshawar today, killing 11 people in the latest bloodshed in an unrelenting wave of terror plaguing the country.

A homicide bomber killed at least 40 people in an attack on a military vehicle at a market in northwest Pakistan on Monday as the Taliban claimed responsibility for a weekend siege on the army's headquarters.