Soviet MiG-23MLD pilots, while on a bombing raid along the Pakistani-Afghan border, reported being attacked by F-16s and then seeing one F-16 explode.

These officials believe that that the most likely hiding place of Osama bin Laden is in the tribal areas along the Pakistani-Afghan border.

Scholars believe that the tribal customs of the Pathans, who live on both sides of the Pakistani-Afghan border, impose much greater isolation on women that Islam requires.

The officials warned that those fighters could add to the potentially volatile mix in the semiautonomous tribal region along the Pakistani-Afghan border.

He saw bin Laden only once more after that, just before the al-Qaeda leader had been forced to hide in one of his many mountain strongholds along the Pakistani-Afghan border.

Soviet and Afghan fighters and bombers occasionally bombed Pakistani villages along the Pakistani-Afghan border.

To the Editor: Like most relief workers (I spent the last three years working on the Pakistani-Afghan border), I'm a bit modest.

Pakistan knew what that meant: The Afghan Communists would encourage a separatist movement of the Pushtu-speaking Pathans, who live on both sides of the Pakistani-Afghan border.

Journalist Dexter Filkins talks about his experience meeting a tribal warlord on the Pakistani-Afghan border.

The election results brought Islamist radicals to power in two areas along the Pakistani-Afghan border, where Qaeda and Taliban fighters are believed to be hiding.