20 Killed in Clashes Between Army, Militants
From Times Wire Reports
Pakistani forces clashed with heavily armed foreign militants, killing more than 20 people in a mountainous tribal region near the Afghan border where hundreds of Al Qaeda fighters are believed to be hiding, officials and a tribal elder said.
The bloodshed follows weeks of failed efforts to get the militants in South Waziristan to surrender to authorities by peaceful means after an army counter-terrorism offensive in March that left 120 people dead.
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