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The article discusses an attack on a school in Peshawar, Pakistan by the Pakistani Taliban terrorist group in December 2014 that killed at least 141 people including 132 schoolchildren, and injured dozens more. The Taliban said the assault was in response to government attacks earlier in the year on Taliban positions along Pakistan's border with Afghanistan. All seven attackers, who were armed with guns and explosives, were killed.

The article offers world news briefs as of December 30, 2015 including the death of Kim Yang Gon, North Korean politician; suicide bomb attack in northwest Pakistan that killed at least 24 people; and a report from Brazil's Health Ministry that shows spread of mosquito borne Zika virus.

The article reports on the vigil and meeting conducted by the families of the victims of the massacre and terrorist attack of Pakistani Taliban militants on the Army Public School in Peshawar, Pakistan on December 16, 2014.

The article offers world news briefs as of September 2015 on topics such as the approach of the Scottish National Party (SNP) to understand the factors why Scottish citizens voted no to break from Great Britain and the death of about 29 people in Peshawar, Pakistan during an attack of militants.

The article reports on the acquittal of 8 of 10 men who were sentenced to life in prison for an assassination attempt on Pakistani teenage activist Malala Yousafzai.

The article reports on the displacement of families in Pakistan by a Pakistani military offensive that began returning to North Waziristan, a part of Pakistan's Federally Administered Tribal Areas that had become a sanctuary for Pakistani Taliban, Afghan insurgents and al Qaeda operatives.

The article offers world news briefs as of March 18, 2015 on topics including reclaimed city of Bama, Nigeria from the Islamist insurgency in the region and murder of doctor Shakil Afridi who helped in finding terrorist Osama bin Laden.

The article reports that militant forces in Pakistan have joined forces with the Islamic fundamentalist organization Taliban to fight the Pakistani military.

The article discusses heightened security at schools across Pakistan as they reopened in January 2015 almost one month after an attack by members of the Taliban terrorist group on the Army Public School in the city of Peshawar killed 150 people, mostly students.

The article reports the U.S. forces' handing over a militant wanted by Pakistan and killing several members of the Pakistani Taliban hiding in Afghanistan with a drone strike indicated a growing cooperation between the two countries.

The article offers world news briefs on topics including the defection of six members of the Islamic militant organization the Pakistani Taliban to rival organization Islamic State, the European Union's (EU's) promise of transparency regarding its prosecution of tax evasion, and negotiations between Iran and six EU countries in regard to Iran's nuclear energy program.

The article discusses the hometown of Nobel Peace Prize winner Malala Yousafzai, Mingora, Pakistan, focusing on the fear of extremists in the region, even after the Taliban terrorist group was ousted, as well as the need for a police security for Nobel Prize celebrations.

The article discusses the rise in kidnappings in 2014 of wealthy businessmen and influential people by the Islamic militant group the Pakistani Taliban in Karachi, Pakistan, such as deputy speaker of parliament Moazzam Kalro, according to officials with Pakistan's Federal Investigation Agency.

The article discusses several Haqqani terrorist network militants who reportedly slipped away from the North Waziristan, Pakistan region prior to the Pakistani Army's launch of a military offensive in 2014, focusing on an apparent affiliation between the Haqqani group and Afghan Taliban terrorists.

The article looks at political and security conditions in the North Waziristan region of Pakistan as of July 2014, reporting on the Pakistani military's operation there and offering comments from refugees from the region on the violence and terror carried out there by the Taliban Islamist group.

The article discusses the conflicts and violence between the Pakistani military and the terrorist organization the Taliban in Pakistan as of June 2014 and reports that more Pakistani citizens have been displaced and have had to take refuge in areas such as Bannu, Pakistan.

The article reports that a drone strike by the U.S. military in the North Waziristan region of Pakistan killed at least five militants of the Afghan Haqqani network as of June 19, 2014.

The article discusses the Pakistan military's reported launch of an apparently major ground offensive in June 2014 which is designed to clear out the Pakistani Taliban and other local and foreign militants from the North Waziristan tribal area, focusing on Pakistani military airstrikes.

The article reports that U.S. drone strikes in Afghanistan killed Haji Gul, one of the senior commanders of the militant group Haqqani network which operates in Pakistan and Afghanistan, as of June 2014 with details on the attacks and the terrorist militant organization.

The article reports that as of June 12, 2014 two U.S. drone strikes hit Pakistan's North Waziristan tribal region to protect U.S. forces in Afghanistan and in efforts for a resumption of the U.S.'s drone program that was previously suspended.

The article discusses a report which claims that fighting within the ranks of the Pakistan Taliban Islamist group has caused the organization's peace talks with the Pakistani government to become stalled as of April 2014, focusing on Pakistan's Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif and violence in Pakistan.

The article discusses the polio crisis in Pakistan as of January 2014, with information on attacks against vaccination teams by Islamist militants, possible travel restrictions on Pakistanis due to the spread of the virus, and allegations of spying by the U.S. Central intelligence Agency (CIA).

The article discusses a video, sent to some journalists on December 25, 2013, which depicts the U.S. development expert Warren Weinstein pleading with the U.S. president Barack Obama to negotiate for his release as a hostage of the al Qaeda fundamentalist organization.

The article reports on the 7.5-magnitude earthquake that struck the Hindu Kush mountains in Afghanistan near the border with Pakistan on October 26, 2015.

The article reports on the border clash between Afghan and Pakistani forces on June 30, 2015, which follows a months-long initiative to improve relations between the two countries initiated by Afghan President Ashraf Ghani.

The article discusses a suicide bombing near the Pakistan-India border in Lahore, Pakistan which killed at least 50 people and wounded more than 100 individuals, focusing on a splinter faction of the Pakistani Taliban extremist group which claimed responsibility for the suicide attack.