US drone strikes targeting three militant compounds on Friday killed at least 15 people in Pakistan's restive tribal region near the Afghan border, security officials said.

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Gunmen pulled 20 Shiite Muslims from a bus and killed them at point blank range in Pakistan on Thursday, the third such incident in six months, officials said.

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At least nine people were killed and 16 others wounded when a suicide bomber blew his explosive laden car in northwest Pakistan's tribal region on Saturday, officials said.

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Taliban gunmen stormed a Pakistani police station on Monday, sparking gunbattles in the northwestern town of Bannu near the militant stronghold of North Waziristan, officials said.

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A lawyer for a Pakistani doctor jailed after he helped the US track down Osama bin Laden says the first hearing in his appeal was delayed.

Samiullah Khan Afridi said the prosecution failed to produce

A bomb ripped through a market area in a northwest Pakistan tribal town near the Afghan border on Saturday, killing at least 11 people and wounding more than 20, officials said.

Abu Yahya al-Libi, one of al-Qaeda's top strategists and seen as the most prominent figure in the network after leader Ayman al Zawahri, may have been killed in a drone strike in northwest Pakistan, P

Lawyers representing Pakistani doctor Shakil Afridi, who was sentenced to 33 years imprisonment on charges of treason, have appealed against his conviction.

Police say a 13-year-old Pakistani boy who set himself on fire because his family could not afford to buy him a new school uniform has died.

Police officer Zahir Shah said the boy, Kamran Khan, died

A bomb exploded at a funeral near the northwestern city of Peshawar on Sunday, killing nine people and wounding 31 others, police and hospital officials said.

The blast went off near a graveyard, whe