Baitullah Mehsud

July 21, 2023 | Bill Roggio |

Taliban again denies TTP presence in Afghanistan

The Taliban continues to claim that there are no foreign terror groups operating inside Afghanistan, despite plenty of evidence to the contrary. The latest denial came this week when the Taliban was pressed...

June 16, 2022 | Bill Roggio |

Turkistan Islamic Party leader celebrates Eid in Afghanistan

Abdul Haq al Turkistani, the head of the Al Qaeda and Taliban-linked Turkistan Islamic Party, celebrated the Eid al-Fitr holiday in Afghanistan. Abdul Haq’s public presence in Afghanistan directly contradicts...

June 23, 2019 | Thomas Joscelyn |

Al Qaeda growing stronger under Taliban’s umbrella, UN finds

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June 11, 2015 | Bill Roggio The Long War Journal

Turkistan Islamic Party Emir Thought Killed in 2010 Reemerged to Lead Group in 2014

The emir of the Turkistan Islamic Party, who served on al Qaeda’s executive leadership council and who was thought to have been killed in a US drone strike in 2010, is believed to have re-e...

November 19, 2014 | Thomas Joscelyn

Gitmo ‘Poet’ Now Recruiting for Islamic State

An ex-Guantanamo detainee based in northern Pakistan is leading an effort to recruit jihadists for the Islamic State, an al Qaeda offshoot that controls large portions of Iraq and Syria....

November 4, 2013 | Thomas Joscelyn

Death of an Anti-American Terrorist

The head of the Pakistani Taliban, Hakimullah Mehsud, was killed in an American drone strik...

November 4, 2013 | Bill Roggio

Pakistani Taliban Leader Killed By US After 4-Year Hunt

After years of effort, the U.S. has finally killed Hakeemullah Mehsud, the leader of al-Qaeda linked Movement of the Taliban Pakistan, in the latest drone strike in Pakistan’s tribal agency...

February 13, 2013 | Bill Roggio The Long War Journal

Pakistani Taliban Praise Slain American, British Jihadists

The Movement of the Taliban in Pakistan recently released a video of so-called "martyrs" that includes two previously unknown jihadists from the United States and Britain. The two dead Western ji...

February 1, 2013 | Bill Roggio The Long War Journal

Sidelined Pakistani Taliban Commander Back in Good Graces

Faqir Mohammed, the former emir in Bajaur of the Movement of the Taliban in Pakistan, has returned to the fold after his dismissal a year ago for conducting negotiations with the Pakistani govern...

January 2, 2013 | Bill Roggio The Long War Journal

Pakistani Taliban Release Video Refuting Rumors of Leadership Rift

The Movement of the Taliban in Pakistan released a videotape today that refutes the longstanding rumors of a split among the highest leadership of the organization. The group's emir, Hakeemu...

August 22, 2012 | Thomas Joscelyn The Long War Journal |

Al Qaeda Releases Biography of Slain Senior Leader

The 21st, and latest, online edition of al Qaeda's "Vanguards of Khorasan" magazine contains a biography of slain al Qaeda leader Atiyah Abd al Rahman. According to a translation provided by...

June 1, 2012 | Andrew McCarthy Ordered Liberty

From ‘Rule of Law’ to ‘Hit List’: NY Times Lauds Obama at War

“The president accepts as a fact that a certain amount of screw-ups are going to happen, and to him, that calls for a more judicious process.” Well, that’s certainly a...

May 30, 2012 | Robert Barnidge Boston University International Law Journal

A Defense of Drone Attacks in Pakistan Under Humanitarian Law

Since the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, international law has had to grapple with the fundamental challenges that large-scale violence carried out by non-state actors pos...

March 9, 2012 | Bill Roggio The Long War Journal

US Drones Kill at Least 13 in South Waziristan Strike

Unmanned US Predator or Reaper strike aircraft killed 13 "militants" in airstrikes in the Miramshah and Mir Ali areas of Pakistan's Taliban-controlled tribal agency of South Waziristan today...

January 4, 2012 | Bill Roggio The Long War Journal

Are the Top Two Pakistani Taliban Leaders ‘at Each Other’s Throats’?

Video of Hakeemullah Mehsud and Waliur Rehman Mehsud's press conference in Sararogha on Oct. 4, 2009. They denied re...

January 3, 2012 | Bill Roggio The Long War Journal

Al Qaeda Brokers New Anti-US Taliban Alliance in Pakistan and Afghanistan

One of al Qaeda's top leaders has reached out to the most powerful Taliban commanders along the Afghan-Pakistani border to create a new alliance to battle the US and NATO forces in Afghanist...

June 15, 2011 | Weekly Standard

Descent into Appeasement

Pakistan's dangerous deals with terrorists.

June 14, 2011 | Washington Times

Why Mrs. Bhutto Had to Die

Former Pakistani Prime Minster Benazir Bhutto was murdered because of herpotential actions in Pakistan, by the combined forces of jihadism in that country. In short, they executed her to pre-empt...

May 16, 2011 | Bill Roggio The Long War Journal

Taliban leader in Bajaur rumored killed in Pakistani strikes

Thirty two Taliban fighters have been reported killed during the latest round of fighting in the extremist-controlled Pakistani tribal agency of Bajaur. The Pakistani military speculated that Faq...

January 13, 2011 | The Long War Journal

Turkistan Islamic Party Identifies Senior Leader Killed in Afghanistan

The Turkistan Islamic Party, an al Qaeda affiliate that operates in Central and South Asia, has identified a senior member of the group who was killed in a US airstrike last year in northwestern...