ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (AP) — A missile strike apparently by a U.S. drone hit a house in Pakistan’s tribal region close to the Afghan border Friday, killing at least 12 people including several foreign militants, Pakistani intelligence officials said.
In the northwestern city of Peshawar, just outside the tribal areas, a Japanese journalist was shot in the leg and injured Friday. It was the third attack on a foreigner in the city in three days, police said.
An Iranian diplomat was kidnapped in the city and his bodyguard was killed Thursday, a day …

On September 3, the US military sent a force of commandos across the border from Afghanistan into Pakistan on a raid in which 20 innocent civilians were reportedly killed, including women and children. The attack took place in Angoor Adda, the last Pakistani town near the Afghan border in the South Waziristan area. An eyewitness reported, “Later, I saw 15 bodies inside and outside two homes. They had been shot in the head”. He said the dead included women and children and that all were civilians. Other local residents said …