Wāṇa or Wanna (Pashto: واڼه, Wāṇə [ˈwɑɳə]; Urdu: وانا) is the largest town in the South Waziristan District of the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan.
During their rule, the Pashtun tribes of Waziristan - part of the Karlanri Tribal Confederation - gave the British much headache.
At one point during the 1930s, the British had up to 18,000 troops in and around Waziristan, with Wanna being used as the forward headquarters and airbase.
During 1989, the city underwent a striking increase in Malaria with a village Azam Warsak suffering the most.
[citation needed] Perhaps the town's most violent incident in the War on Terror was the Battle of Wanna which took place in March 2004 and included fighters from the Pakistani Army against Al-Qaeda and Taliban forces.