Pakistan, Taliban Fighting Intensifies In Swat Valley A humanitarian crisis in Pakistan's Northwest Province is deepening. Thousands of civilians streamed out of the militant stronghold of Swat ...

Nearly a decade after the Pakistani army pushed out the Taliban from a scenic mountain region known as the "Switzerland of Pakistan," residents say the military has overstayed its welcome.

In Pakistan, the army has launched an operation in the Swat Valley. That's the one-time tourist destination in the countries northwest that's been overrun by the Taliban. And in the last 24 hours ...

Pakistani forces killed 55 Taliban in the northwestern valley of Swat on Friday, the army said, and lifted a curfew to allow thousands of civilians to flee before troops assail the Taliban-held ...

Map of the northern regions of the NWFP, including Swat. Just one day after more than 500 Taliban fighters marched from the district of Swat in the Northwest Frontier Province into the neighboring ...

Pakistani troops cleared on Wednesday the last Taliban stronghold in the Swat Valley, the army said, and appealed for public support to defeat militants in an Afghan border region.

KABUL, Sept. 11 -- Authorities in Pakistan announced Friday that they had arrested five Taliban leaders in the Swat Valley, a verdant region that has been at the epicenter of the country's on ...

Pakistani Taliban insurgents blew up four schools in the northwestern Swat region Monday hours after a cabinet minister vowed that the government would reopen schools in the violence-plagued valley.

Pakistan's once-tranquil Swat Valley is now a battleground in the struggle between Taliban militants and Pakistan's army and Frontier Corps. But it will… ...

ISLAMABAD (AP) - Pakistan’s army says it has killed at least 30 Taliban in battles across the troubled northwestern Swat Valley. Army spokesman Akhtar Abbas says soldiers looking for militants ...