A U.S. government official says a top al-Qaida operative has been killed in a drone attack in western Pakistan. ...more

December 11, 2009

Suspected U.S. missiles slammed into a compound near the Afghan border Saturday, killing about 30 people, local officials said. Most of the dead were thought to be militants linked to the Taliban or al-Qaida. ...more

February 15, 2009

Two missile attacks launched from remotely piloted U.S. aircraft killed at least 15 people in western Pakistan on Friday. The strikes suggested that the strategy of using drones to kill militants inside Pakistan's own borders would continue under President Barack Obama. ...more

January 24, 2009

In a methodical execution-style attack, gunmen with automatic weapons cornered and killed an American aid worker and his Pakistani driver Wednesday in the capital of Pakistan's volatile northwest region. ...more

November 13, 2008

Pakistan's defense minister cautioned the newly appointed head of the U.S. Central Command on Monday that launching further missile strikes in the country's troubled tribal areas could increase tensions between the two countries. ...more

November 4, 2008

David Petraeus knows Iraq and he's learning Afghanistan. But the biggest test facing the four-star general as he takes charge of U.S. Central Command is probably Pakistan - threatened with financial ruin, torn by an Islamic extremist insurgency and armed with nuclear weapons. ...more

November 1, 2008

President Bush secretly approved orders in July that for the first time allow American Special Operations forces to carry out ground assaults inside Pakistan without prior approval of the Pakistani government, according to senior American officials. ...more

September 11, 2008

Using jet fighters and helicopter gunships, the government unleashed a more aggressive assault against the Taliban in Pakistan's tribal region this week, risking retaliation from the militants and the wrath of thousands of civilians who have been forced to flee their homes. ...more

August 13, 2008

With Islamic militants tightening their grip around Peshawar, kidnapping residents and threatening the city itself, the new Pakistani coalition government delivered its first military response Saturday. ...more

June 29, 2008

In a gruesome public spectacle Friday, Taliban-linked militants executed two Afghan men accused of spying for the United States, slitting their throats and parading their severed heads before a cheering crowd. ...more

June 28, 2008