A suicide car bomber killed four security forces and wounded passing schoolchildren Tuesday in Pakistan’s volatile northwest, where the government is under pressure from Washington to crack down on militants.

A senior police official says a suicide car bomber has killed at least four paramilitary security forces in northwestern Pakistan.

President Barack Obama will seek assurances this week from Pakistani President Asif Ali Zadari that his country’s nuclear arsenal is safe and that Pakistan’s military intends to face down Taliban extremists in coordination with Afghanistan and the United

President Hamid Karzai chose a powerful warlord accused of rights abuses as one of his vice presidential running mates on Monday, hours before leaving for meetings in Washington with President Barack Obama and Pakistan’s president.

The Pentagon’s top military officer says he’s comfortable that Pakistan’s nuclear weapons remain secure, but is gravely concerned about Taliban advances there and in Afghanistan.

Clashes in a northwestern region covered by an increasingly fragile peace pact killed seven militants and one soldier Monday, authorities said, adding to strains on an agreement seen in the West as a capitulation to extremists.

Taliban militants attacked an army convoy Monday in a northwestern region covered by an increasingly fragile peace pact, killing one soldier and dealing another blow to an agreement seen in the West as a capitulation to extremists.

At the entrance to Peshawar, a young man on the side of the road offers a prayer, while on the bridge overhead three men videotape him.

A Pakistani government official says Taliban fighters are resuming armed patrols in the main city in the Swat Valley.

A bomb placed on a bicycle in a busy market killed four people Sunday, including two children, while American fighter aircraft and ground forces killed 19 militants near the Pakistan border, officials said.