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ISLAMABAD, Pakistan -- The Pakistani military said Monday that a high-profile militant leader had surrendered, calling it a significant victory in efforts against the remnants of the Pakistani Taliban. The [...]

KABUL, Afghanistan -- The early tenure of the Taliban's new leader, a low-key religious scholar seen as a potential unifier, has been notable for lacking the drama his predecessor seemed [...]

The Taliban has had a quick succession of leaders recently. A look at who has led: 1 Mullah Haibatullah Akhundzada The Taliban announced that the former leader of the organization's [...]

KABUL, Afghanistan -- Faced with a choice between two obvious candidates to take over the Taliban -- one the young son of the insurgency's founder, the other chief of the [...]

Byline: Antonio Olivo KABUL, Afghanistan - In a move seeking to end rifts within the Taliban, the insurgent group Wednesday named a new leader and confirmed the death of his [...]

The United States has for years held off targeting senior Taliban leaders while they were inside Pakistan's Baluchistan Province, where Pakistan's powerful army has long protected them. But President Obama [...]

''We killed the leader of the Taliban driving across Baluchistan in a taxi,'' a former senior State Department official told The New York Times. ''I think we have some questions [...]

About 3 o'clock in the afternoon Saturday, a man whose Pakistani passport said he was Wali Muhammad was being driven in a car in the 100 degree-plus heat along the [...]

WASHINGTON -- Early on Saturday, a middle-aged Pashtun man used forged documents to cross from Iran into Pakistan. A few hours later, on a lonely stretch of highway, he was [...]

KABUL, Afghanistan -- After months of failed Pakistani efforts to broker peace talks with the Taliban, an American drone strike against the leader of the Afghan militants signaled a major [...]

Byline: Tim Craig, Antonio Olivo and Missy Ryan ISLAMABAD, Pakistan -- The U.S. drone strike thought to have killed Taliban chief Akhtar Mohammad Mansour represents another escalation in U.S. involvement [...]

Byline: Tim Craig, Antonio Olivo and Missy Ryan ISLAMABAD, Pakistan - The U.S. airstrike thought to have killed Taliban chief Akhtar Mohammad Mansour over the weekend represents another escalation in [...]

Byline: Tim Craig, Antonio Olivo and Missy Ryan ISLAMABAD, Pakistan - The U.S. airstrike thought to have killed Taliban chief Akhtar Mohammad Mansour over the weekend represents another escalation in [...]

WASHINGTON -- An American drone strike targeted the leader of the Taliban, Mullah Akhtar Muhammad Mansour, in Pakistan near the border with Afghanistan, United States officials said on Saturday, in [...]

KABUL, Afghanistan -- In a compromise bid to unite the ranks after months of infighting, the Taliban's new leader has appointed the brother and son of Mullah Muhammad Omar, the [...]

KABUL, Afghanistan -- The Taliban issued what they said was an audio recording of their leader, Mullah Akhtar Muhammad Mansour, on Saturday in an effort to quiet speculation that he [...]

KABUL, Afghanistan -- Taliban officials on Friday strenuously denied claims that their leader, Mullah Akhtar Muhammad Mansour, had been killed or wounded and promised to soon release an audio recording [...]

KABUL, Afghanistan -- A day after reports began surfacing that the Taliban's supreme leader may have been wounded or killed in a dispute, a scramble by the insurgents to deny [...]

KABUL, Afghanistan -- Solidifying reports of high-level rifts within the Taliban over the group's leadership succession, the head of the insurgents' official diplomatic delegation in Qatar publicly resigned on Monday. [...]