PESHAWAR, Pakistan, Aug. 26 (UPI) -- Hakeemullah Mehsud, the new leader of the Pakistani Taliban, confirmed former leader Baitullah Mehsud died Sunday from wounds suffered in an airstrike.
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Aug. 25 (UPI) -- The Pakistani Taliban say their leader Baitullah Mehsud is dead, finally accepting U.S. and Pakistani reports of his death in an Aug. 5 drone attack.
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Aug. 22 (UPI) -- The Taliban in Pakistan announced a new young leader Saturday to replace Baitullah Mehsud, who is believed to have been killed by a U.S. drone.
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.
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.
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.
PESHAWAR, Pakistan, Oct. 12 (UPI) -- Abdullah Mahsud, who is behind the kidnapping of two Chinese in Pakistan, spent 25 months in Guantanamo Bay prison before his release in March this year.
