ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Aug. 17 (UPI) -- A key aide to Pakistan's Taliban chief, Baitullah Mehsud, was arrested at a house in Islamabad where he was being treated for injuries, police said.

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Aug. 17 (UPI) -- U.S. Special Envoy Richard Holbrooke, who arrived in Pakistan, praised that country's fight against the Taliban.

WASHINGTON, Aug. 9 (UPI) -- U.S. and Pakistani officials said Sunday they are standing by their information that Taliban leaders Baitullah and Hakimullah Mehsud are dead.

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Aug. 8 (UPI) -- A young Pakistani Taliban leader seen as jockeying for leadership of the militant group has been killed in a feud, intelligence officials say.

PESHAWAR, Pakistan, Aug. 7 (UPI) -- Taliban leaders in Pakistan met to discuss a new boss as deputy insurgent officials confirmed leader Baitullah Mehsud died in a Wednesday airstrike.

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Aug. 6 (UPI) -- U.S. officials believe there is a "strong indication" Pakistani Taliban leader Baitullah Mehsud was killed by a CIA drone strike, ABC News reported.

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, June 19 (UPI) -- Taliban leader Baitullah Mehsud plotted the 2007 assassination of former Pakistan Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto, a self-proclaimed aide to the leader said.

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, June 14 (UPI) -- The Pakistani military, encouraged by recent successes against the Taliban, plans to go after the group's leader, Baitullah Mehsud, an official said.

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Oct. 1 (UPI) -- Baitullah Mehsud, the Pakistani Taliban chief blamed for the assassination of Benazir Bhutto, is alive, a Tehrik-e-Taliban spokesman said.

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, March 1 (UPI) -- Authorities in Pakistan have charged a Taliban leader and four others in the assassination of opposition leader Benazir Bhutto, officials said.