The suicide bomber who killed three US soldiers in north-western Pakistan targeted their vehicle in a five-car convoy and rammed his car into it, police said today.

A roadside bomb killed three US soldiers and flattened a girls’ school in north-west Pakistan today in an attack that drew attention to a US military training mission in the al Qaida and Taliban heartland.

Three US soldiers were among seven people killed today in a roadside bomb blast near a girls' school in north-west Pakistan, security officials said.

A roadside bomb has killed six people, including three foreigners, near a girls' school in north-west Pakistan, police said.

Police commandos acting on a tip-off killed one militant and arrested five others today in a raid against a bombing cell accused in recent attacks around the north west Pakistani city of Peshawar, authorities said today.

President Barack Obama’s special envoy to Pakistan has praised the country’s “very significant” progress in taking back key territory from the Taliban and promised more weapons for the fight against extremists close to the Afghan border.

THREE days of clashes between security forces and militants in north-west Pakistan near the Afghan border left more than 56 militants and six soldiers dead, the military said.

A suicide bomber killed 30 people attending prayers at a mosque in Pakistan’s violence-racked north west today.

PAKISTANI helicopter gunships and ground troops pounded Taliban fighters yesterday, killing up to 60 militants and destroying a dozen would-be suicide bombers in fierce fighting, the army said.

PAKISTAN pounded Taliban hideouts for a third day yesterday and said its troops killed 14 insurgents as the president urged the nation to unite behind the offensive.

PAKISTANI airstrikes killed dozens of Taliban fighters in a fierce struggle to drive them from a district near the capital, while the militants took over police stations and kidnapped more than 50 security forces, the army said.

The Taliban today dismissed a peace deal with the Pakistani government as “worthless”.

Pakistan sent helicopter gunships and troops to attack Taliban militants in a district covered by a peace deal after strong US pressure on the nuclear-armed nation to confront insurgents advancing in its northwest.