Al Jazeera looks at how security forces are dealing with the constant threat from armed groups in Pakistan's Swat Valley.

This video shows a girl being flogged in the Swat Valley, an area in northwest Pakistan under Taliban control. The clip was broadcast on Pakistani TV. Video courtesy of Geo News.

Officials said an improvised explosive device struck a vehicle carrying coal miners in the country’s southwest.

7. When she was 10 years old the Taliban arrived in Swat Valley What was life like under the Taliban? “Basically, it was a life in fear. The Taliban would enter into people's houses, just because ...

meets refugees from the conflict in Pakistan’s Swat Valley and finds anger, trepidation and hope as they return home after this summer’s counter-Taliban military offensive.

Symbols Of Infidels' When schoolteacher Usman Ulasyar took steps to protect an ancient Buddhist site in Pakistan's northwestern Swat Valley in 2008, he was lucky to escape the brutal justice of the ...

But many shops shut down when the Taliban occupied the region in 2007 ... Standing Swat wood carving was once a thriving craft in Swat Valley in Pakistan. The artistry dates back 2,000 years ...

MINGORA, Pakistan, Saturday (Reuters) A suicide car-bomber blew himself up at a Pakistani security post in the Swat valley on Saturday killing three soldiers in the most serious attack in the area for ...

Yousafzai became a household name after she was attacked by Pakistan Taliban militants on a school bus in the remote Swat valley in 2012. Militancy was widespread in the region at the time as the ...

whether it's in the Swat Valley or across the border in Afghanistan," Dad added. In 2012 at the age of 15, Yousafzai was shot in the head while on her way home from school by a Pakistan Taliban ...

picturesque Swat Valley and militants had ordered girls to stay home. Across the frontier, the war raged between NATO forces and the Afghan Taliban, a separate but closely linked group from the ...

Yousafzai became a household name after she was attacked by Pakistan Taliban militants on a school bus in the remote Swat valley in 2012. Militancy was widespread in the region at the time as the ...