ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Aug. 21 (UPI) -- A deputy Pakistani Taliban commander made independent claims to the new leadership of the group amid growing disarray within its ranks.
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Aug. 19 (UPI) -- Pakistani Taliban commander Maulvi Faqeer Mohammad says he has taken over as the group's acting head in place of Baitullah Mehsud.
PESHAWAR, Pakistan, Aug. 13 (UPI) -- Pakistani Taliban militants loyal to Baitullah Mehsud clashed with a group opposed to them, resulting in dozens killed, intelligence officials said.
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, July 9 (UPI) -- Pakistani officials say 22 suspected Taliban militants and 16 civilians were killed in the shelling of suspected Taliban sites in South Waziristan Thursday.
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, May 12 (UPI) -- A suspected U.S. unmanned aircraft strike on a village in Pakistan's tribal region killed nine people and wounded others Tuesday, Pakistani officials said.
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, April 15 (UPI) -- Airstrikes in a border region of western Pakistan killed between 16 and 20 Taliban fighters, but their commander escaped, officials said.
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, April 1 (UPI) -- A least a dozen people were killed Wednesday when missiles from a U.S. drone struck a remote area of Pakistan, Pakistani officials 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.
