Pakistan's military says troops have faced off with insurgents in three separate shootouts in the restive northwest bordering Afghanistan, killing 13 militants.

Local Afghans and the Pakistani Taliban say civilians, including women and children, were killed after Pakistan launched rare airstrikes inside neighboring Afghanistan

By Mohammad Yunus Yawar KABUL (Reuters) -Bombardment by the Pakistani army in Afghanistan's eastern Paktika province on Tuesday killed at least 46 people, most of whom were children and women, said the Afghan Taliban,