Taliban Insurgents Ambush Pakistan Military Convoy
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ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Aug. 30 -- In an audacious display of force, Taliban insurgents on Thursday ambushed a convoy of military vehicles in a remote tribal area and took more than 100 Pakistani troops hostage, local officials said.
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Suspected Taliban guerrillas killed five Afghan troops in an ambush on a district headquarters in a troubled southern province, officials said on Wednesday, 11 days before a landmark election.
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Muslim insurgents ambushed a Philippine marine convoy searching for a kidnapped Italian priest and killed at least 14 troops, beheading at least 10 of them, a military spokesman said Wednesday.
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Unidentified gunmen ambushed a van carrying security personnel in southwestern Pakistan on Thursday, killing nine people and wounding four, police said.
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Pakistani forces captured 40  militants in South Waziristan region on the Afghan border, a  military spokesman said on Saturday, a day after up to 90  militants were killed in two battles.
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Pakistani forces recaptured a  road tunnel leading to the volatile tribal belt on the Afghan  border on Sunday after killing around two dozen pro-Taliban  militants in a fierce battle, the military said.
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Taliban militants ambushed U.S.-led coalition and Afghan forces escorting supply trucks in southern Afghanistan, sparking a 10-hour battle the coalition said killed an estimated two dozen militants, though villagers said Monday seven civilians also died.
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WANA, Pakistan  - Pakistani forces pounded  suspected Islamic militants with helicopter gunships and mortar  fire on Friday, but have failed to find the mastermind of the  kidnapping this month of two Chinese engineers.
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WANA, Pakistan  - Militants in northwest Pakistan attacked a paramilitary camp and up to 30 soldiers were missing, security officials said on Wednesday.
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An ambush on a military convoy in Pakistan has left five soldiers and a number of attackers dead officials say.
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Pakistani forces captured 40  militants in the South Waziristan region on the Afghan border,  a military spokesman said on Saturday, a day after up to 90  rebels were killed in two battles.
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Taliban militants ambushed a truck full of Afghan police in southern Afghanistan, killing four officers and injuring three, an official said Saturday.
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Pro-Taleban militants claim to have kidnapped more than 100 Pakistani soldiers near the Afghan border.
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Taliban used heavy machine guns and rocket propelled grenades to ambush a U.S.-led coalition patrol in southern Afghanistan that wounded nine troops, a coalition statement said Thursday.
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Insurgents attack a Nato convoy in the Afghan city of Kandahar, killing three civilians, police say.
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Suspected Taliban rebels ambushed two Afghan army convoys and U.S. forces in the country&#039;s south, sparking gunbattles that killed at least 25 militants, five Afghan soldiers and a U.S. soldier, coalition forces said Saturday.
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Dozens killed as troops encircle mountain base of Taliban chief linked to Bhutto killing