Boys flee their Swat Valley orphanage after Taliban attack their home; Army had set-up position in their building, mining the playground; The boys cowered in a back room, as the fighting raged outside ...

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

Torrential rain triggered flash floods that tore through Pakistan’s northwestern Swat Valley over the weekend, killing at ...

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.

PESHAWAR, Pakistan (Reuters) -At least nine people died when floodwaters swept away children in a river in northern Pakistan ...

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 ...

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 ...