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PESHAWAR: A US drone attack on a house in North Waziristan Thursday killed seven people, more causalities are feared, security officials said. Two missiles were fired at a house in Ditta Khel, killing seven people also making it the third attack in North Waziristan within 24 hours, DawnNews reported. The covert US drone campaign stepped up strikes in Pakistan’s tribal belt on the Afghan border last month over intelligence claims of a Mumbai-style terror plot to launch attacks on European cities. Around 35 such attacks since September 3 have killed more than 185 people, according to an AFP toll. Around...

ISLAMABAD: Intelligence officials say two suspected US missile strikes have killed nine people in a northwest Pakistan tribal region along the Afghan border. One strike Friday evening in the town of Mohammad Khel killed four people and a second in Datta Khel killed five, two officials said. The area of the strikes in North Waziristan is believed to be controlled by Pakistani Taliban militants. The officials say all nine dead are believed to be militants and some may be foreign fighters.

MINGORA: Pakistani forces killed 23 militants early on Tuesday in fighting that erupted after insurgents fired on troops during a search operation in the country's northwest, police and intelligence officials said. The search was launched after a suicide bomb attack on a paramilitary fort in Lower Dir district, where troops killed hundreds of militants in an offensive last year. “The fighting began when miscreants opened fire on troops searching the area after reports of militant movement there,” Dir's top police chief, Mumtaz Zireen, told Reuters.

A Givati Brigade force gunned down a Palestinian terrorist who appeared to be attempting to plant a bomb next to the Gaza border fence early Friday, the IDF said. Before being killed, the terrorist managed to hurl a grenade at the troops, but there were no casualties among the soldiers. The clash occurred near the Gaza belt community of Kfar Azza. On Thursday night, a Kassam rocket fired by terrorists in Gaza hit an open area in the Eshkol region. No one was wounded and no damage was reported.

Apache catches two taliban jihadists planting an IED...a cloud of red Allah-mist soon covers the Afghan desert. Note: Scene is from Zabul, Afghanistan, footage released by ISAF on 10/30/09.

WASHINGTON, Oct. 26, 2009 – Afghan and NATO forces have removed dozens of insurgents from fighting in Afghanistan in recent days, including a long-sought-after Taliban commander, military officials reported. Combined Afghan and International Security Assistance Force units killed at least two dozen insurgents during fighting in southern and eastern Afghanistan and detained numerous others. In operations yesterday: -- A combined force killed a dozen enemy militants in Kandahar province in an operation to interdict a Taliban commander and his unit believed to be responsible for attacks in the Arghandab district west of Kandahar City. The force coordinated an air strike...

PESHAWAR: In the first drone strikes since the Pakistan military began its operation in South Waziristan a top al-Qaeda operative Abu Al-Masri is reported to have been killed in a strike from a US unmanned aircraft. However, conflicting reports earlier suggested that Al-Masri may have been killed preparing suicide jackets in the village of Spalga. Known as Mustafa Al-Yazid, he was urported to have links with Afghan immigrant Najibullah Zazi, whom US authorities arrested in an alleged plot to use homemade backpack bombs, he served three years in an Egyptian prison, in the 1980s, for supposed links to the group...

Bodies of six suspected Taliban militants have been found in Pakistan's north-western Kurram tribal region, officials say. The bodies were found in Kurut area, on the border of Kurram and Hangu district in North West Frontier Province. Correspondents say this is the first time that bodies of militants have been found outside of the Swat region. Meanwhile, a senior Taliban commander has been killed in clashes with troops in the Swat valley, officials say. The commander, Nisar, also known as Ghazi Baba, was killed in an offensive near the town of Mingora, they said. He was a senior deputy to...

KABUL, May 29, 2009 – Afghan soldiers, advised by coalition forces, killed 35 militants and wounded 13 others in the Deh Chopan district of Afghanistan’s Zabul province yesterday, military officials reported. The Afghan-led force was conducting an early morning combat reconnaissance patrol when the convoy came under heavy fire from militants using small arms and mortars. The combined forces returned fire and requested air support, killing 35 and wounding 13. The remaining militants retreated, and medical personnel treated the wounded enemy fighters, who were taken into Afghan National Army custody. No Afghan security forces, coalition forces or civilian casualties were...

AUSTRALIAN special forces troops have killed a senior Taliban commander in Afghanistan in an operation expected to disrupt insurgent activity for some months. Mullah Noorullah and one other insurgent were tracked moving into a tunnel system in the Oruzgan area, where Australian forces are based. They were killed in a targeted operation, defence said. Noorullah, classed as a senior insurgent commander, was involved in the use of improvised explosive devices and rocket attacks against coalition forces. He was also understood to have been involved in the major battle with Afghan and Australian forces on April 12 in which up to...

KHAR, Pakistan (AP) -- Pakistani forces bombed dozens of houses in a tribal region near the Afghan border Sunday, officials and witnesses said, amid reports that days of clashes have killed at least 100 insurgents and nine paramilitary troops.