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

Taliban forces are reported to be advancing ... Pakistan Approves Use of Islamic Law in Swat Valley Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari on Monday signed a measure imposing Islamic law in the ...

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

For example, the Pakistani military ran a deradicalization program in the Swat Valley to counter the Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan. Indonesia's police-run deradicalization approach includes sentence ...

Officials said the vehicle was carrying coal miners, and that most of the victims were from the country’s northwestern Swat Valley and other areas ... Pakistan’s border regions since the Afghan ...

It's worth noting that one of the Muslim leaders participating in the negotiation had previously led a band of men to fight alongside the Taliban in Afghanistan against the U.S.-led coalition. The ...

SPOKANE VALLEY, Wash. -- Two men were arrested during a SWAT standoff in Spokane Valley on Thursday, according to Spokane County Sheriff's Office. Around 12 p.m. on January 23, marshals from the ...

The U.N. mission in Afghanistan says a Taliban fighter opened fire at the U.N. compound in Kabul, slightly injuring a security guard, and was later found dead.

(This story was updated to add information about the incident.) The Simi Valley Police Department’s SWAT team went to a mobile home park in the city Sunday to talk a man believed to have fired a ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Afghan Hashmatullah Alam, 40, who worked with U.S. Army, poses at a ...

SPRING, Texas (KTRK) -- Harris County SWAT arrested a 33-year-old man wanted ... at the home located in the 24000 block of Sunview Valley near Cypresswood. In an attempt to make a felony arrest ...