Taliban Fight Back Against Pakistan Offensive
DERA ISMAIL KHAN, Pakistan — Pakistani troops and the Taliban fought fierce battles in a militant sanctuary near the Afghan border, with both si...
DERA ISMAIL KHAN, Pakistan — Pakistani troops and the Taliban fought fierce battles in a militant sanctuary near the Afghan border, with both si...
AP | SARAH EL DEEB | Posted 11.28.2009 | World
CAIRO — Al-Qaida's deputy leader on Monday seized upon President Barack Obama's failure to bring about a freeze in Israeli settlement constructi...
Amb. Marc Ginsberg | Posted 11.11.2009 | World
Obama has a very tough decision to make: whether or not to accept the troop level increase recommendation from his field commanders under mounting pressure from some prominent Congressional Democrats to reject it.
Mark Juergensmeyer | Posted 11.10.2009 | World
Recently we convened a workshop of senior scholars of South Asia studies and asked them to evaluate the US role in the region. They agreed upon the following five principles as the bases for formulating a new policy
The Huffington Post | Susan Ryan | Posted 09.26.2009 | World
Waliur Rehman, one of Pakistan's Taliban leaders, has said Obama is the group's "foremost enemy", McClatchy reports. Rehman told AP that the Pakistan...
AP | ISHTIAQ MAHSUD and KAY JOHNSON | Posted 09.25.2009 | World
DERA ISMAIL KHAN, Pakistan — After weeks of denials, two Pakistani Taliban commanders acknowledged Tuesday that the group's top leader, Baitulla...
Naveen Naqvi | Posted 09.21.2009 | World
The recent killing of Baitullah Mehsud by a US-led drone attack still does not seem to work in favor of the drone attacks.
William Bradley | Posted 09.20.2009 | World
The Obama administration should sigh with a sense of relief after the election in Afghanistan -- the Taliban failed in their threat to halt the election, and were unable to pull off any of the promised attacks.
BBC NEWS | Posted 09.20.2009 | World
A major power struggle appears to have broken out between the diverse militant factions that make up the Taliban in Pakistan....
AP | KAY JOHNSON | Posted 09.18.2009 | World
ISLAMABAD — The Taliban claimed responsibility for two weekend suicide bombings in the northwestern Swat Valley, saying Monday the blasts were a...
Christopher Herbert and Victoria Kataoka Rebuffet | Posted 09.14.2009 | World
These Past Two Week's Top Stories in Foreign Affairs: Afghan Elections SI Analysis: Presidential elections in Afghanistan will be held on 20 August....
The Huffington Post | Posted 09.12.2009 | World
President Obama himself gave U.S. security operatives the green light to strike Baitullah Mehsud, according to CNN. The leader of Pakistan's Taliban...
Ahsan Butt | Posted 09.11.2009 | World
For once, Asif Zardari can prove useful to Pakistan. He must remind Pakistanis that it was his wife that was killed by Baitullah in the midst of a vicious campaign of violence to destabilize Pakistan in the years of 2007 and 2008.
Kit Gallant | Posted 09.10.2009 | World
Counter-insurgency experts and military officials have an oft-noted tendency to focus excessively, to obsess, really, on killing or capturing a single pivotal individual.
AP | NAHAL TOOSI and KAY JOHNSON | Posted 09.10.2009 | World
PESHAWAR, Pakistan — A barrage of rockets hit a residential area of Pakistan's northwestern Peshawar city in a brazen pre-dawn attack Tuesday, k...
Bashir Ahmad Gwakh | Posted 09.08.2009 | World
A fellow commander of the Pakistani Taliban leader rejected government claims of the death of Baitullah Mehsud in a U.S. drone strike.
Newsweek | Ron Moreau and Sami Yousafzai | Posted 09.08.2009 | World
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, ...
Andy Borowitz | Posted 08.08.2009 | Comedy
"No missile has gotten anywhere near him," said Haikmullah Mehsud. "Like the rest of us, he has been highly frustrated by Twitter outages."
AP | ELENA BECATOROS and ZARAR KHAN | Posted 09.08.2009 | Home
ISLAMABAD — Senior Taliban commanders denied their leader was killed in a CIA missile strike in Pakistan while conflicting reports emerged of a ...
AP | NAHAL TOOSI and ISHTIAQ MAHSUD | Posted 09.07.2009 | World
ISLAMABAD — Pakistan's Taliban chief was killed by a CIA missile strike, a militant commander confirmed Friday – a severe blow to extremis...
AP | The Associated Press | Posted 09.07.2009 | World
A look at three possible successors to Pakistan Taliban leader Baitullah Mehsud, who is believed to have died in a U.S. missile strike Wednesday. ___...
AP | ZARAR KHAN and ISHTIAQ MAHSUD | Posted 09.06.2009 | World
ISLAMABAD — U.S. and Pakistani authorities were investigating whether Pakistani Taliban chief Baitullah Mehsud, who has led a violent campaign o...
AP | ISHTIAQ MAHSUD and NAHAL TOOSI | Posted 09.05.2009 | World
DERA ISMAIL KHAN, Pakistan — A suspected U.S. missile strike killed a wife of Pakistani Taliban chief Baitullah Mehsud at his father-in-law's ho...
Huffington Post | Posted 08.13.2009 | World
The Pakistan army has begun allowing some of the 2 million people displaced by the violence in Swat Valley to return home, the BBC reports. The first...
Al Jazeera English | Posted 08.07.2009 | World
At least 12 people have been killed in a suspected US missile strike on a training camp run by Baitullah Mehsud, the Pakistani Taliban leader, in Sout...
AP | ISHTIAQ MAHSUD | Posted 10.19.2009 | World