By Declan Walsh Pakistan’s political leaders have reacted with unusual vehemence since missiles fired by American drones killed the leader of the Pakistani Taliban, Hakimullah Mehsud ...

How do you track down a foe without a face? That is the challenge posed by Baitullah Mehsud, the man who could well be the newest Enemy No. 1 in the War on Terror ...

If Baitullah Mehsud, the Pakistani Taliban's most dangerous and powerful leader, was indeed killed by a U.S. Predator drone strike earlier this week, the biggest loser of all may be Osama bin ...

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 ...

Unmanned American missile reportedly targeted Baitullah Mehsud himself. August 5, 2009— -- A CIA drone strike killed the wife of Pakistan's most wanted man today, according to local ...

Counterterror experts say strike on Mehsud has to rattle bin Laden. Aug. 7, 2009 — -- If the U.S. is able to successfully kill Pakistan's most wanted man ...

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 feared leader of the Pakistan Taliban, is believed to have been killed during the Aug. 5 airstrike in South Waziristan. Faqir Mohammed, the deputy leader of the Movement of the ...

DERA ISMAIL KHAN, Pakistan — Pakistani officials said Wednesday that a U.S. missile strike in northwestern Pakistan had killed a wife of top Pakistani Taliban leader Baitullah Mehsud.

The Pakistani Taliban have confirmed that their leader Baitullah Mehsud was killed in an American missile strike in August 2009. He was one of the most wanted militants in the country. Baitullah ...

Baitullah Mehsud, the man who claimed responsibility for the attack on a police training academy in Manawan (on the outskirts of Lahore) on March 30, is a veteran of the anti-Soviet ‘jihad’ of ...