Pakistani Troops Fighting Extremists In Swat Valley Washington Post columnist David Ignatius has just returned from Pakistan, where he visited the lush Swat Valley — an area that until recently ...

Swat Valley has become the epicenter of the power struggle between the militants and Pakistan forces. International aid agencies say 200,000 people have already escaped the widening conflict there.

Both men were imprisoned upon their return from Afghanistan, and it was after he was freed that Fazlullah returned to the Swat Valley village of Imam Dheri, operating the yellow-painted chairlift ...

Nearly three months after Pakistan retook the Swat Valley from the Taliban, corpses are still turning up on the streets. This time, the victims are suspected militants — and the killers are ...

ISLAMABAD (AP) — Pakistani soldiers arrested the spokesman for the Taliban in the Swat Valley and four other commanders, the military announced Friday, striking its first direct blow against the ...

In 2012, Malala Yousafzai was a 14-year-old activist for girls' access to education in Pakistan's northwestern Swat Valley, then a stronghold of the Taliban. Then the militants tried to kill her.

Pakistan said on Saturday officials had agreed a "permanent" truce with Taliban fighters in the northwestern Swat valley, but a Taliban commander said its own ceasefire would be reviewed next week.

Refugees pass by a damaged house as they arrive in Mingora, capital of Swat, Pakistan, on Tuesday, July 21, 2009. While many people are returning to their homes, wealthy landowners are staying ...