SWAT VALLEY, Pakistan — A visit to this battlefield of Pakistan’s war against the Taliban left one indelible image — of a teenage boy’s beaming smile of relief — that conveys what a ...

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.

Pakistani boys attend the rehabilitation school Sabaoon in Malakand, adjacent to Pakistan's Swat Valley, in July 2010. Anjum Naveed/AP hide caption ...

After nearly two years of Taliban rule and a recent military offensive, hundreds of students are returning to their studies. But many schools were damaged or destroyed.

Pakistani security forces fighting Taliban militants in and around the Swat Valley have rescued nearly a dozen boys brainwashed into becoming suicide bombers, according to officials. A senior ...

Anna Husarska is senior policy advisor at the International Rescue Committee. WRITING FROM MINGORA, PAKISTAN — The drawing shows three boys in traditional Pakistani long shirts, shalwar kameez ...

The Pakistani army says it has so far found 20 boys like I.H., who is only being identified by his initials for his safety, in the battle-scarred Swat Valley, scene of a major offensive against ...

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 ...

He and more than 120 other boys, some as young as 12, now go to an army-run school designed to guide youths in the picturesque Swat Valley away from the brutality and fanaticism of the Taliban.

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 ...

Sabaoon School in Pakistan's Swat Valley works to de-radicalize local youth U.N. Special Rapporteur: U.S. drone strikes here have radicalized a new generation Up to 3,500 people have been killed ...