Peshawar, Suicide Bomber | featured news

A suicide bomber struck outside a court building in the main northwest city of Peshawar, killing at least five people and wounding 49.

A suicide car bomber killed 10 people, including four children, today at a police checkpoint on the outskirts of the northwestern Pakistani city of Peshawar, in the latest in a string of militant attacks targeting the city, officials said.

As Pakistani forces battle the Taliban, the militants' latest retaliatory attack in the Peshawar area continues a shift in strategy in which hard-to-secure city markets are targeted.

A car bomb blast tore through a crowded market in a city near Peshawar today and killed 34 people, the third terrorist attack to strike the area in three days.

A car bomb ripped through a crowded market killing 90 people in Pakistan's city of Peshawar on Wednesday, just hours after Washington's top diplomat arrived pledging a fresh start in sometimes strained relations.

A powerful explosion Tuesday outside a five-star hotel in the northwestern city of Peshawar killed at least 11 people and wounded 55, Pakistani officials said.