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| rdfs:comment | - Fighting commenced in the largest and main city of the district, Mingora, between elite Pakistani commandos and about 300 Taliban militants positioned in deserted buildings and continued until 23 May 2009, when a major Pakistani offensive retook much of the city. Amid heavy street fighting, the Pakistani Army captured large parts of the city, including several key intersections and squares.
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| Partof | - the War in North-West Pakistan
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| Commander | - 20
- Abu Faraj
- Abu Saeed
- Maulana Fazlullah
- Maulana Shahid
- Misbah ud-Din
- Muslim Khan
- Naseeb Rehman
- Nisar Ahmed
- Qari Quraish
- Shah Dauran
- Sher Muhammad Qusab
- Sultan Khan
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| Caption | - Swat is the yellow colored region
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| Result | - Decisive Pakistani Army victory
*Swat returned to government control
*Many Taliban commanders captured or killed
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| combatant | - Lashkar-e-Islam
- State of Pakistan
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- TNSM
- Al Qaeda
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| Place | - Swat Valley, Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa Province
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| abstract | - Fighting commenced in the largest and main city of the district, Mingora, between elite Pakistani commandos and about 300 Taliban militants positioned in deserted buildings and continued until 23 May 2009, when a major Pakistani offensive retook much of the city. Amid heavy street fighting, the Pakistani Army captured large parts of the city, including several key intersections and squares. On 24 May, the Pakistani Army announced it had retaken large parts of Mingora. Major-General Athar Abbas, the Army's chief military spokesman, announced that "we want to eliminate the entire [Taliban] leadership". Pakistani soldiers continued to engage the Taliban in street fighting and search buildings for Taliban fighters. Pakistani troops also retook several nearby towns previously under Taliban control. On 30 May, the Pakistani military announced that it had regained control of all of Mingora, though small pockets of resistance still remained in the city's outskirts. Fighting between Pakistani forces and Taliban militants continued in other areas. The Pakistani army claimed the death toll to be 1,200 Taliban fighters and 90 Pakistani soldiers. There were believed to be 200,000 people in Mingora as recently as a week prior to the eruption of hostilities. Following the lifting of a curfew, as of 23 May a large exodus left what was believed to be only 10,000-20,000 civilians in the town.
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