PESHAWAR, Pakistan — A suspected U.S. drone crashed in Pakistan’s lawless tribal area near the Afghan border Sunday, a rare mishap for a program Washington has increasingly relied on to kill Taliban and al-Qaida militants, said intelligence officials and a local resident. Local tribesman in...

ISLAMABAD — The Pakistani army said Thursday during a visit by Defense Secretary Robert Gates that it can’t launch any new offensives against militants for six months to a year to give it time to stabilize existing gains. The announcement probably comes as a disappointment to the U.S., which has...

PESHAWAR, Pakistan — Suspected U.S. missiles killed four people in northwest Pakistan on Friday, the latest in a surge of such attacks since a suicide bomber staged a deadly assault on CIA employees just across the frontier in Afghanistan. The attack was the sixth in just over a week in North...

ISLAMABAD — The United States has unleashed an unprecedented number of missile attacks by unmanned drones in northwest Pakistan over the last two weeks, including one Thursday that officials said killed 12 alleged militants in what was once a religious school. The barrage signals the Obama...

ISLAMABAD — Two suspected U.S. drone missile strikes killed at least 12 people Wednesday in an area of Pakistan’s volatile northwest teeming with militants suspected in a recent suicide attack that killed seven CIA employees in Afghanistan, intelligence officials said. The lawless North...

ISLAMABAD — Pakistani police said Thursday they plan to ask a court to charge five Americans arrested in early December with terrorism, and will seek life sentences against them. The young Muslim men, who are from the Washington D.C. area, were captured in the eastern Pakistan city of Sargodha...

MIR ALI, Pakistan — A suspected U.S. missile strike killed three people Saturday in a northwest Pakistani tribal region where militants focused on fighting the West in Afghanistan are concentrated, two Pakistani intelligence officials said. On the other side of the country, a blast wounded 19...

MIR ALI, Pakistan — Two U.S. missile strikes pummeled targets inside the main sanctuary used by al-Qaida and the Taliban along Pakistan’s border with Afghanistan on Thursday, killing 17 people, local intelligence officials said. The missiles rained on North Waziristan, considered a safe haven...

RAWALPINDI, Pakistan — Bristling at criticism from Washington, Pakistan’s army dismissed U.S. pressure to open a front against Afghan militants operating on its territory, saying Thursday it was stretched to the limit in a bloody war against its own Taliban. The disagreement is an early sign of...

WASHINGTON — Five young American Muslims arrested in Pakistan met with representatives of an al-Qaida linked group and asked for training but were turned down because they lacked references from trusted militants, a Pakistani law enforcement official said Thursday. U.S. officials in Pakistan...

DERA ISMAIL KHAN, Pakistan — Residents fleeing a nearly week-old Pakistani army offensive in a Taliban stronghold along the Afghan border have reported that the insurgents are digging in for a fight and travel the roads freely. Tired and dusty refugees arriving Thursday in the northwestern town...

PARACHINAR, Pakistan — Soldiers fought for control of the Pakistani Taliban chief’s hometown as they pressed an offensive along the Afghan border, while intelligence officials said U.S. missiles hit territory controlled by another insurgent, threatening to undermine deals that keep some militants...

DERA ISMAIL KHAN, Pakistan — Pakistani jets bombed militant targets in the main insurgent stronghold along the Afghan border Tuesday ahead of an expected ground offensive there, an official said. The army says 80 percent of the militant attacks plaguing the nuclear-armed country are planned from...

DERA ISMAIL KHAN, Pakistan — Pakistan’s Taliban have claimed responsibility for a brazen weekend attack on the army’s headquarters compound in the city of Rawalpindi. Taliban spokesman Azam Tariq called The Associated Press on Monday and said the attack that killed 20 people was only the first...

MIR ALI, Pakistan — A suspected U.S. missile strike killed 12 people in northwestern Pakistan, intelligence officials said — the latest in a spate of attacks close to the Afghan border that have squeezed al-Qaida and the Taliban. Such strikes have killed high-ranking militant commanders,...

MIR ALI, Pakistan — A missile fired from a suspected unmanned U.S. plane slammed into a car in a Pakistani tribal region close to the Afghan border on Monday, killing four people, intelligence officials and residents said. The apparent American strike was the latest of more than 50 in the region...

ISLAMABAD — A U.S. drone fired a missile Friday into a suspected militant hide-out in Pakistan’s lawless northwest, killing 12 people in an attempt to take out a jihadist commander accused of attacks on Western troops in Afghanistan, intelligence officials said. There was no immediate word...

WASHINGTON — The U.S. is nearly certain the Pakistani Taliban’s leader is dead, and there now is a leadership struggle within the terrorist group, White House national security adviser James Jones said Sunday. Claims and counterclaims about Baitullah Mehsud’s fate have swirled since a CIA...

Al-Qaida forces in Pakistan have suffered significant setbacks over the past year but the organization remains resilient, two Defense Department officials said July 23. Mike Vickers, the Pentagon official who directly oversees special operations forces, told reporters that while “al-Qaida’s...

WASHINGTON — The top U.S. military officer said Thursday he is concerned that the U.S. troop buildup to roust insurgents from Afghanistan could further destabilize neighboring Pakistan. However, Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Adm. Mike Mullen, speaking to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee,...