Red agencies/ districts controlled by the Taliban; purple is de facto control; yellow is under threat. Tensions have arisen over the Swat peace agreement signed last month. The central government said ...

Driving in Pakistan’s Swat valley, a region located close to the border with Afghanistan, I can sense the difference immediately. The faces of young children, women and families who walk around seem ...

Five years after it collapsed under Taliban rule, the once-thriving silk industry in the Swat valley of northwest Pakistan is still in shreds, leaving thousands without work and entrepreneurs like ...

Map of Swat. Click map to view. The Taliban has launched a series of attacks against political opponents and the infrastructure in the scenic northern district of Swat in Pakistan. The attacks ...

SWAT DISTRICT, Pakistan, April 30 (UNHCR) - Almost a year after the onset of conflict forced hundreds of thousands of civilians to flee northern Pakistan's Swat Valley and surrounding areas, most of ...

(RFE/RL) -- Fighting is continuing in Pakistan's Swat Valley between government troops and Taliban militants, raising concerns about the return of some 2 million displaced residents that began this ...

MINGORA, Pakistan, May 1 (Reuters) - A suicide bomber killed five people in Pakistan's Swat Valley on Saturday, police said, fuelling fears of a Taliban comeback in the area a year after a major army ...

The Sabaoon School for boys in northern Pakistan is anything but average. Nestled amid the bucolic charm of the Swat Valley’s fertile terraced fields and steeply rising crags it looks idyllic. But if ...

MINGORA, Pakistan (Reuters) - Kishwar Begum studied nursing until she apparently decided to take lives, not help save them. Her photograph appears on the front-page of a newspaper identifying her as a ...

ISLAMABAD (Reuters) -- Pakistan's army chief has said before a meeting U.S. special envoy Richard Holbrooke that his forces have "turned the tide" against Taliban fighters and aim to completely ...

Even as hundreds of thousands of people stream back to the Swat Valley after months of fighting, one important group is conspicuously absent: the wealthy landowners who fled the Taliban in fear and ...