Waziristan

At least 24 militants were "neutralized" during counter-terror operations across Turkey last week, the Interior Ministry said in a weekly statement on May 14.

Taliban militants launched a pre-dawn raid on a district government compound in Afghanistan on April 12, killing at least seven people including the local governor, officials said.

Pakistan's military said Friday the suspension of U.S. assistance will undermine bilateral security cooperation and regional peace efforts but will not deter the Pakistan's counterterrorism resolve.

"Pakistan never fought for money but for peace," army spokesman Major-General Asif Ghafoor told VOA.

A suicide bomber blew himself up at a bank close to the heavily protected U.S. embassy in the Afghan capital Kabul yesterday, killing at least five people and wounding eight, the interior ministry said.

The bomber hit the entrance to a Kabul Bank branch in the well-off area of Kabul, ministry spokesman Najib Danish said. He said at least five people had been killed and eight wounded.

Pakistani troops on May 15 began a "massive" offensive to try to push the Taliban from their last major stronghold in the mountainous northwestern region of North Waziristan, moving in from north and south, officials and residents said. 

At least 20 people have been killed and 40 hurt in a Taliban assault on an army-run school in the Pakistani city of Peshawar, officials say, quoted by the international media.

Five or six militants wearing security uniforms entered the school, officials said. Gunfire and explosions were heard as security forces surrounded the area.

At least 95 people including 82 children were killed Tuesday when Taliban militants stormed an army-run school in Pakistan's northwestern city of Peshawar,  hospital officials said.
      
The Lady Reading hospital received 26 bodies including 23 students,  according to Jamil Shah, a spokesman.
      

A Bulgarian man died in Pakistan while fighting on the Islamist insurgent group Haqqani network in 2013, an investigation of a leading Bulgarian channel shows.

The man known as "Anis the Bulgarian" was killed by a drone, according to private national channel bTV which carried out the investigation together with Vladimir Chukov, an expert in Arabic studies.

A suicide bomber killed at least 45 people Nov. 2 at the main Pakistan-India border crossing, the blast tearing through crowds of spectators leaving after the colourful daily ceremony to close the frontier.
      

Turkey has called on the US to intensify its aerial attacks against ISIL militants to avoid the fall of Kobane