Articles written by Munir Ahmad Sherin Zada Associated Press Writer Shahi Koto

MUNIR AHMAD SHERIN ZADA Associated Press Writer SHAHI KOTO, Pakistan

A roadside bomb killed 3 U.S. soldiers and flattened a girls' school in northwest Pakistan today in an attack that drew attention to a little-publicized American military training mission in the al-Qaida and Taliban heartland. They were the first known U.S. military fatalities in Pakistan's lawless tribal regions near the Afghan border, and a major victory for militants who have been hit hard by a surge of U.S. missile strikes and a major Pakistani army offensive. The blast also killed three schoolgirls and a Pakistani...