Maulvi Sahib: Congratulations, I just got back during the night. Baitullah Mehsud: Congratulations to you, were they our men? Maulvi Sahib: Yes they were ours. Baitullah Mehsud: Who were they? Maulvi ...

The leader of Tehreek-e Taliban-e Pakistan, Baitullah Mehsud, speaks with the al-Jazeera television network. Baitullah Mehsud is a natural leader: cagey, dogged and charismatic, with an apparent knack ...

Red agencies/ districts controlled by the Taliban; purple is defacto control; yellow is under threat The Taliban have kidnapped four Pakistani paramilitary forces in the town of Makeen in the tribal ...

The missile strikes on training camps run by Baitullah Mehsud represent a broadening of the American campaign inside Pakistan, which has been largely carried out by drone aircraft. Under President ...

Baitullah Mehsud from a recent Taliban video. Pakistani Taliban commander Baitullah Mehsud was not killed in yesterday’s airstrike in South Waziristan, US intelligence officials told The Long War ...

Baitullah Mehsud, the brazen jihadist operating along the violent, lawless border between Pakistan and Afghanistan, has a curious gift for escape. On several occasions over the past couple of years, ...

Earlier this summer, the Taliban released a DVD that suggested Baitullah Mehsud was losing his mojo. Unlike other propaganda videos, which show Taliban cadres conducting real ambushes in Afghanistan ...

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ISLAMABAD, Pakistan -- U.S. and Pakistani officials said Friday that they were increasingly convinced a U.S. drone strike two days earlier had killed Baitullah Mehsud, most-wanted leader of Pakistan's ...

The Taliban has ravaged Pakistan, but its leadership is in tatters. After weeks of denials, two Pakistani Taliban commanders admitted on Aug. 25 that the group’s chief, Baitullah Mehsud, had been ...

The killing of Pakistan Taliban leader Baitullah Mehsud by a CIA drone, if true, is a “notable victory in the war on terror,” said The Wall Street Journal in an editorial, and an early foreign policy ...

Baitullah Mehsud, the Pakistani Taliban leader who increasingly looks to have been killed by a missile fired from a CIA Predator drone earlier in the week, may have signed his own death warrant by ...