A deadly clash between government forces and Taliban militants erupted in Pakistan's restive tribal belt Tuesday, marking continued unrest in the Orakzai district -- an area government officials last year claimed they had largely pacified.
A prominent figure in the Pakistani Taliban on Thursday questioned a decision by the group's leadership to remove him from his position of deputy commander over accusations he held unauthorized talks with the Pakistani government
The Pakistani Taliban has removed its second in command from his post and demoted him to the rank of regular fighter, a spokesman said late Monday, accusing him of holding unauthorized talks with the Pakistani government.
The Pakistani Taliban recruited and trained a suicide bomber, then sold him to the Haqqani network to carry out an attack in Afghanistan, but he was arrested before pulling off the plan, an official with Afghanistan's National Directorate of Security (NDS) said Monday.
Pakistani security forces have captured one of the former bodyguards of Pakistani Taliban leader Hakimullah Mehsud, intelligence officials told CNN Saturday.
The death toll from a suicide attack in southwestern Pakistan has risen to 73, police said Saturday.
A bombing at a rally in Quetta, Pakistan, has resulted in several casualties.
Hakimullah Mehsud, a key leader of the Pakistani Taliban, has been charged for his alleged involvement in the killings of seven U.S. citizens at an American military base in Afghanistan in 2009, the U.S. Justice Department announced Wednesday.
For three months, Hakimullah Mehsud was supposedly dead, killed in a U.S. drone attack in the mountains of Pakistan, according to Pakistani officials.
A video released Sunday by a Pakistan Taliban group features a statement from a speaker claiming to be leader Hakimullah Mehsud in his first appearance since reports of his death in a drone strike, according to IntelCenter, a think tank that tracks terrorist groups.
Pakistan officials say a top Taliban leader who was thought to be dead may still be alive. CNN's Reza Sayah reports.
Pakistani Taliban leader Hakimullah Mehsud is alive and was recently seen in Pakistan's tribal region, officials said Thursday contradicting recent reports he was killed in a drone strike.
Pakistani Taliban leader Hakimullah Mehsud is dead, three Taliban sources and a government official said Tuesday.
Pakistani Taliban members confirm that a key leader has died. CNN's Reza Sayah reports.
Pakistani Taliban leader Hakimullah Mehsud is alive and remains in hiding, a spokesman for the group told CNN Thursday.
The United States has escalated its unmanned aircraft strikes at militant targets in Pakistan since seven Americans were killed in a December 30 suicide attack at a CIA base in eastern Afghanistan, statistics from two informed research outlets show.
Several suspected U.S. drone strikes killed at least 29 people in Pakistan on Tuesday, Pakistani intelligence sources said.
The Pakistani military on Sunday was looking into a local report that the region's Taliban leader had died, officials said.
CNN National Security Analyst Peter Bergen talks about a plan to pay Taliban fighters to switch sides.
Three militants were killed Tuesday in a suspected U.S. drone strike on a compound near the Afghan border, officials told CNN.
A drone attack on a suspected militant compound killed at least 20 in South Waziristan early Sunday morning, Pakistani officials said.
The Taliban in Pakistan have released a second audiotape purportedly containing the voice of their leader, Hakimullah Mehsud, who sources say was wounded in a suspected drone strike this week.
The leader of the Taliban in Pakistan, Hakimullah Mehsud, was wounded in a suspected U.S. drone strike Thursday, intelligence and Taliban sources told CNN Friday.
A suspected U.S. drone attack killed 10 people in northwest Pakistan on Thursday morning, but missed the leader of the Taliban in the country, officials said.
The man believed to be the suicide bomber who killed seven CIA employees and contractors last month appears in a newly released video, in which he vows revenge for the killing of a Taliban leader.
The Taliban release a video showing double agent vowing revenge on the U.S. CNN's Nic Robertson reports.
The man identified as the double agent who killed eight people at a U.S. base in Afghanistan was a Jordanian doctor recruited as a counterterrorism intelligence source, a senior Jordanian official said Tuesday.
The top U.S. military commander for the Middle East and Central Asia visited Pakistan on Monday as the Pakistani army battled Taliban militants in the country's northwest, U.S. Embassy officials said.
Pakistan's army said Sunday it has killed 60 "terrorists" as it battles to wrest control of part of the country from the Taliban. Five soldiers were killed in the last 24 hours of the assault, the military said.
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