MINGORA, Pakistan — No one expected the news from Oslo this time. Last year, supporters of Malala Yousafzai in her native Swat Valley defied possible backlash from Taliban-backed militants and ...

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 ...

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 ...

Pakistan intensified its military operation to regain control of the country's northwest on Sunday, with fighting focused on ...

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 ...

This time the line of vehicles snaking for miles down the sweltering valley — small cars packed with families and large trucks heaving with livestock and furniture — are not fleeing; the refugees from ...

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After months of fighting, Taliban militants in Swat announced a cease-fire Tuesday after the army said it would suspend operations in the region and Pakistani authorities agreed to introduce a mild ...

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 ...

Ever since Khayal Muhammad's great grandfather built the first home in Chel Deepu along the Bishigram River some 130 years ago, residents in the village in northern Pakistan's Swat Valley considered ...

ISLAMABAD, PAKISTAN — A week after Pakistani authorities struck a controversial accord with Taliban militants in a violence-plagued valley in Pakistan’s northwest, the terms of the deal remained ...