For years, Pakistani political and military leaders have claimed credit for defeating terrorism by forcing the Taliban and allied militants out of the Pashtun tribal regions along the country’s ...

As the Pakistani military gears up for what appears to be a major operation into the Taliban stronghold of South Waziristan, the government and military are signaling that the operation is limited to ...

The Pakistani military is not planning to confront Baitullah Mehsud’s Taliban forces head on in South Waziristan. Instead the military will rely on air and artillery strikes and attempt to blockade ...

The Pakistani government has been conducting military operations in South and North Waziristan since the beginning of June. Their goal has been to eliminate the country’s most wanted terrorist, ...

Until now, Nazir and Bahadur had focused on the insurgency in Afghanistan, threatening the U.S.-led coalition there but not Pakistan, and if Pakistan persists in its offensive, the battle in ...

Farid Khan, a Pashtun tribal leader, is eager to return to his homeland in western Pakistan’s restive Waziristan region after years of exile in neighboring southeastern Afghanistan. The middle-aged ...

Last month, I had a rare opportunity to visit North Waziristan, a Pakistani tribal region blessed with rugged beauty, yet cursed with a long history of conflict. Long a haven for terrorists, both ...

It's a land of daunting mountains, crisscrossed with rugged paths. Tucked in the valleys, families live a subsistence existence in mud houses secluded behind 10-foot-high walls, cooking over open ...