CNN's Susan Candiotti details surveillance video that shows New York terror suspect Faisal Shahzad purchasing fireworks.
The father-in-law and a friend of the suspect in the Times Square car bombing attempt were among several people detained for questioning in Pakistan this week, sources said Wednesday.
In Pakistan, relatives of the suspected Times Square bomber say Faisal Shahzad gave no clue he might turn radical.
Unlike al Qaeda, the Pakistani Taliban organization has shown little appetite for taking its brand of jihadism beyond the borders of Pakistan and Afghanistan. Maybe that's changing.
The buyer of the sport-utility vehicle used in a failed attempt to set off a car bomb in New York's Times Square is considered a potential suspect in the case, a law enforcement source said Monday.
NYPD surveillance video from Times Square shows a man changing shirts before walking away.
Law enforcement officials are examining surveillance video from the Times Square area showing a man changing his shirt around the time of the bomb scare Saturday night, New York's police commissioner said Sunday.
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.
A terrorist attack near the U.S. Consulate in Peshawar, Pakistan, killed two consulate security guards and at least six others Monday, authorities said.
CNN's Paula Newton reports on a triple blast near the U.S. consulate in Peshawar, northwest Pakistan.
There is a frontline here in this dusty corner of Pakistan, but not the kind where guns blaze and tanks roar. On this frontline U.N. tarps flutter in the breeze and wheelbarrows full of food rations roll down dirt pathways. But make no mistake, they are as much a part of Pakistan's war on the Taliban as any battle front.
The Pakistan Taliban claimed responsibility for a suicide bombing that killed at least 13 people and injured dozens in the northwest part of the country Saturday, authorities said.
A senior militant Taliban leader refuted reports Monday that he had been killed in a Pakistani military airstrike in Pakistan's tribal region along the Afghan border.
The capture of the Afghan Taliban's operational commander, Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar, in the Pakistani city of Karachi is a signature success for the United States' effort in Afghanistan and Pakistan, but it does not indicate that the insurgent movement will collapse.
Taliban militants bombed a government boys' school in northwest Pakistan early Saturday, authorities said.
Pakistani Taliban members confirm that a key leader has died. CNN's Reza Sayah reports.
Pakistani Taliban leader Hakimullah Mehsud is dead, three Taliban sources and a government official said Tuesday.
The Pakistani Taliban claimed responsibility Thursday for Wednesday's deadly attack, now thought to be a suicide bombing, in northwestern Pakistan that killed three U.S. military service members.
The Pakistani Taliban claim responsibility for a bombing that killed three U.S. servicemen. 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.
Three militants were killed Tuesday in a suspected U.S. drone strike on a compound near the Afghan border, officials told CNN.
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.
The Taliban release a video showing double agent vowing revenge on the U.S. CNN's Nic Robertson reports.
Al Qaeda has claimed responsibility for the suicide bombing in Afghanistan last month that killed seven CIA employees and contractors and a Jordanian military officer, according to a statement posted on Islamist Web sites.
It was one of the worst blows ever to America's intelligence community -- a suicide bombing that killed seven CIA officers in Afghanistan.
A top Pakistani Taliban leader tells CNN his men are waiting for the weather to change before attacking Pakistani troops.
A blast hit near a building housing Pakistan's intelligence service, ISI, in the eastern city of Multan on Tuesday, killing at least 12 people and wounding 20 others, police said.
Thirty-six people were killed and dozens were injured in explosions at a market in Lahore, Pakistan, on Monday, an official said.
The Pakistani Taliban are waiting the weather out and will take on the military when winter arrives in Pakistan's tribal region, said Taliban leader Hakeemullah Mehsud in a phone call with CNN.
The Pakistani Taliban claimed responsibility for Friday's bombing of a mosque in Rawalpindi and vowed to carry out more attacks, according to an e-mail message from the group.
Taliban leaders have claimed responsibility for a wave of suicide bombings that have battered the Pakistani city of Peshawar. The militants also vow to carry out more attacks in the future.
Conspiracy theories abound that foreign agencies are behind deadly attacks in Pakistan. CNN's Ivan Watson reports.
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.
Four new attacks in Pakistan in eight days prompt new security concerns. Barbara Starr reports.
Pakistani fighter jets bombed a village in South Waziristan on Wednesday, killing at least eight people, said military officials and a local Taliban leader.
Pakistani military jets bombed Taliban militant hideouts Tuesday in the country's lawless tribal region, a senior military official told CNN.
The new leader of the Pakistani Taliban vowed revenge on Pakistan, the United States and NATO forces for drone attacks along the Afghan border, two local journalists who attended a meeting with him told CNN.
A commander of an al Qaeda-linked terror group was killed in Pakistan by a suspected U.S. drone strike, Pakistani military officials said Friday.
A purported audio message from Al Qaeda's second-in-command appeared on radical Islamist Web sites on Sunday eulogizing Baitullah Mehsud, the former leader of the Pakistani Taliban.
A pro-government tribal leader and three other people were killed Monday when a suicide bomber rammed his car into their vehicle in northwest Pakistan, authorities said.
The death toll rose to seven on Friday in an apparent drone attack in northern Pakistan's tribal region, an intelligence source said.
A notorious Pakistani Taliban commander with a reputation for beheading opponents has died in custody, a Pakistani military official said.
An exclusive look at one of Pakistan's lashkars, volunteer tribesmen taking on the Taliban. CNN's Reza Sayah reports.
A top Taliban aide has acknowledged that the leader of the Pakistani Taliban, Baitullah Mehsud, is dead.
Pakistani authorities have launched a massive crackdown on terror groups that they say were planning numerous suicide attacks, including in the country's largest city of Karachi.
The Taliban in Pakistan vote in a new leader. CNN's Cal Perry reports.
Taliban official Hakeemullah Mehsud has been selected the new head of the Pakistani Taliban, a local Taliban commander in Pakistan's federally administered tribal areas told CNN Saturday.
Senior Taliban official Maulvi Faqir Mohammad has named himself acting head of the Pakistani Taliban, a close relative of Mohammad and local Taliban spokesmen in Pakistan's federally administered tribal areas told CNN Wednesday.
In what is seen as a blow to the Pakistani Taliban, two top figures from the militant group have been seized by security forces, Pakistani officials said.
The United States knows that the leader of Pakistan's Taliban is dead because he has not appeared in public to prove that he is alive, the top U.S. envoy to the region told CNN on Monday.
U.S. special envoy Richard Holbrooke gives his assessment of the anti-Taliban drive in Pakistan and Afghanistan.
Pakistan's Taliban chief Baitullah Mehsud is alive, the group's spokesman told CNN on Tuesday -- disputing the Obama administration's contention that he was killed by a CIA missile strike.
CNN's Ralitsa Vassileva talks to author Gretchen Peters about the possible death of Taliban leader Baitullah Mehsud.
The United States believes Pakistani Taliban leader Baitullah Mehsud was killed in a drone attack last week, President Obama's national security adviser said Sunday.
A top Pakistani official says the government has information that a leading candidate to replace the Pakistani Taliban leader believed killed recently was shot dead Saturday in a gunfire exchange between supporters of senior Taliban leaders.
CNN's Cal Perry speaks with Pakistani Interior Minister Rehman Malik about the fate of a Taliban leader.
Pakistan's government was trying to verify intelligence reports that Pakistani Taliban leader Baitullah Mehsud was killed in a recent drone attack, officials said Friday.
Pakistan's government is still trying confirm the death of that country's Taliban leader. CNN's Cal Perry reports.
Pakistani Taliban leader Baitullah Mehsud may have been killed in a U.S. drone attack, a U.S. official said Friday.
A suspected U.S. drone attack killed the wife of the leader of the Pakistan Taliban Wednesday, according to intelligence sources and relatives.
CNN's Nic Robertson reports on how unmanned aerial vehicles are revolutionizing war.
Government airstrikes killed 20 Taliban militants in the past 24 hours in northwest Pakistan, a military source said Monday.
Two key figures connected to the Taliban in Pakistan's Swat Valley were killed Saturday during a military convoy ambush, officials said.
Several key figures connected to the Taliban in Pakistan's Swat Valley have been arrested, Pakistani authorities said.
As the Pakistan army fights the Taliban in Swat, Taliban militants erode freedom in Peshawar. CNN's Dan Rivers reports.
The Taliban claimed responsibility Thursday for a deadly suicide attack on a police building in Lahore, eastern Pakistan that killed at least 27 -- and vowed similar attacks in other cities.
Police in Lahore, Pakistan are investigating a blast that killed at least 30 people. CNN's Dan Rivers reports.
The Pakistan army presses ahead with its offensive against the Taliban in the Swat Valley. ITN's Julian Manyon reports.
Taliban militants attacked NATO supply terminals Wednesday morning, torching at least 10 supply trucks in northern Pakistan, local officials said.
Pakistani troops pound Taliban targets, but humanitarian groups warn a crisis is near. CNN's Reza Sayah reports.
Zabiullah Mujahid, one of two spokesmen for Afghan Taliban leader Mullah Mohammed Omar, spoke recently with CNN's Nic Robertson about the war in Afghanistan and the Taliban's relationship with al Qaeda.
Taliban militants took control Wednesday of a district 60 miles away from the Pakistani capital of Islamabad.
An 11-year old girl is using her pen to fight Taliban swords and wants Pres. Obama to help. CNN's Stan Grant reports.
A car bomb blew up in a city in northwestern Pakistan Tuesday, killing 5 people and injuring 16 others, police said.
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Pakistan cuts a deal with the Taliban allowing a declaration of strict Islamic law. CNN's Campbell Brown weighs in.
More than 40 civilians are killed in Pakistan in crossfire between Pakistani and Taliban forces. CNN's Reza Sayah reports
A suicide car bomb apparently targeting voters killed at least 37 people and wounded 16 others in the Bunair district of Pakistan's North West Frontier Province Sunday, a police official said.
A missile strike killed seven people Sunday at a compound in Pakistan's northern tribal border region, a Pakistani military source said.
A raging Taliban insurgency that has divided the political class combines with economic calamity to create a perfect storm on the front line of the war on terror
The leader of Pakistan's Taliban, Baitullah Mehsud, is dead from kidney failure, sources told CNN.
Pakistan's top leaders were to dine at the Marriott devastated by a truck bombing over the weekend, but changed the venue at the last minute, a senior official said Monday. A hotel official, however, denied there were any plans for a government dinner.
Wary of allowing U.S. operations on his soil, President Zardari seeks a national consensus on fighting terrorism
Was an attempt on the Prime Minister's life retaliation for a
controversial U.S.-led attack on the Afghan-Pakistani border?
Pakistan's ruling coalition collapsed Monday, torn apart by internal bickering just a week after Pervez Musharraf's ouster and underscoring fears that the government would be distracted from its fight against Islamic extremists
Two suicide bombers blew themselves up outside Pakistan's main weapons factory. CNN's Reza Sayah reports.
A bomb targeting an Air Force bus killed at least 12 people in northwestern Pakistan Tuesday, police said. The blast wounded another 15.
Violence across the country Saturday killed 14, including a NATO soldier
One year after the bloody siege of the Red Mosque, a terrorist blast rocks the capital of Islamabad
Pakistani forces pound Taliban targets for the 3rd day. Terrorism Expert Peter Bergen discusses the threat to Peshawar.
Pakistani paramilitary troops have destroyed several Taliban outposts and uncovered a jail where they kept kidnap victims, the interior ministry says.
The CIA believes extremists associated with a Pakistani tribal leader are responsible for the assassination of former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto, according to a U.S. intelligence official.
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