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Malaysian security forces found 13 bodies of suspected Philippine militants as they expanded their hunt for an elusive armed group on the island of Borneo on Wednesday, a day after an assault with fighter jets, mortars and hundreds of troops.

Philippine authorities say Muslim militants have freed a Filipino-American woman after 2 1/2 months in captivity but are still holding her 14-year-old son and a relative.

Indian police issued an alert Thursday in Mumbai, saying four members of a militant group had entered the Indian city and were suspected of plotting violence on the Christmas and New Year's holidays.

Suspected militants in Pakistan attacked NATO tankers carrying fuel to Afghanistan on Friday, officials said.

U.S. counterterrorism officials believe Pakistani Taliban leader Hakimullah Mahsud is dead following a missile attack last month, a senior intelligence official said Wednesday in the strongest signal that Washington has offered about the militant's fate.

A stand-off between militants and security forces in Indian-administered Kashmir has entered its second day. A civilian and a policeman were killed after militants threw a grenade and opened fire in Srinagar on Wednesday.

American missiles struck twice in the tribal region that is a stronghold of Qaeda and Taliban militants.

Three suspected Taliban militants blew themselves up on Saturday as police chased them in Pakistani Kashmir, police 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.