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.
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, 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, July 7 (UPI) -- A suspected attack by a U.S. military drone hit a training camp run by Pakistani Taliban leader Baitullah Mehsud Tuesday, killing at least 12, officials said.
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.
LAHORE, Pakistan, March 31 (UPI) -- A Pakistani Taliban chief claimed responsibility for the attack on a police academy in Lahore in which 30 cadets and academy employees died.
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.
HANGU, Pakistan, July 13 (UPI) -- Sixteen pro-government paramilitary fighters were killed by Taliban forces in Pakistan's restive North West Frontier Province, media reports said Sunday.
MINGORA, Pakistan, June 30 (UPI) -- A Taliban leader says talks between the militant group and the Pakistan government were suspended Monday after a bomb killed six in the country's northwest.
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, May 24 (UPI) -- A Taliban commander based in Pakistan says he's intent on honoring a ceasefire with the new Pakistan government, as long as the army doesn't attack civilians.
