A soldier keeps watch over over trucks carrying refugees fleeing the military offensive against the...
A soldier keeps watch over over trucks carrying refugees fleeing the military offensive against the Pakistani militants in North Waziristan, while entering in Bannu, located in Pakistan's Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province June 19, 2014. Their belongings piled up high on rickety buses, donkey carts and tractors, thousands of refugees poured out of Pakistan's North Waziristan on Thursday, terrified by both state troops and Taliban insurgents fighting for control of the troubled region. Pakistan announced the start of a full-on military offensive on Sunday to quash an increasingly assertive Taliban insurgency in the tribal ethnic Pashtun region where some of the region's most feared al Qaeda-linked militants are based. REUTERS/Ihsan Khattak (PAKISTAN - Tags: POLITICS CIVIL UNREST)