US, Pakistani agents interrogate Taliban leader
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US and Pakistani agents were interrogating the Taliban's former defence minister Saturday in the hope that he can help them hunt down other key militant leaders, security officials said.
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Mullah Omar and other Taliban  leaders are directing insurgency operations in Afghanistan from  the Pakistani city of Quetta, while al Qaeda leader Osama bin  Laden is operating from Pakistan's tribal areas, a senior U.S.  administration official said on Friday.
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Pervez Musharraf says he still gets the question a lot: When will Osama bin Laden and his top deputy be caught? The Pakistani president insists it's more important for his 100,000 troops on the Afghan border to root out the Taliban than search for al-Qaida leaders.
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KABUL, Afghanistan - An American on trial for allegedly torturing Afghan terror suspects in a private jail claimed Saturday in his first interview from custody that he was hot on the heels of Osama bin Laden and other militant leaders when he was arrested on July 5.    Jonathan Idema told The Associated Press he had official sanction from Afghans and Americans to hunt down terrorists and said he has been prevented from showing the evidence in court...
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Al-Qaeda and Taliban leaders Osama bin Laden and Mullah Mohammad Omar and their top commanders are hiding in Pakistan, posing a "huge challenge" to the security of the country and neighboring Afghanistan, a senior US administration official said Friday.
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The one-eyed Taliban leader Mullah Omar, who heads the religious militia fighting U.S. and NATO forces in Afghanistan, is living in Pakistan, though not in the same area where al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden is thought to be, according to a U.S. intelligence source.
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A senior Taliban commander says Osama bin Laden is alive and in contact with leaders of Afghanistan's Taliban insurgents, according to an interview aired on British television.
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ISLAMABAD, Pakistan - The United States and its allies have moved closer to capturing Osama bin Laden in the last two months, a top U.S. counterterrorism official said in a television interview broadcast...
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Pakistani forces captured and critically wounded a senior Taliban militant on Monday
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Pakistan is casting some doubt on comments by a top US counter-terrorism official who said progress had been made in the hunt for Osama bin Laden.
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President Pervez Musharraf warned that U.S. troops would be regarded as invaders if they crossed into Pakistan's border region with Afghanistan in the hunt for al-Qaida or Taliban militants
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Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf is to hold talks with President Bush in New York on the war against terror.
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A senior Taliban commander was arrested by Pakistani forces as he tried to slip across the Afghan border into Pakistan.
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A day after former President Clinton sent cruise missiles against al-Qaida targets in Afghanistan, the leader of that country's ruling Taliban militia telephoned the State Department and offered to talk, according to a State Department message disclosed Friday.
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President Bush and Pakistan leader Pervez Musharraf held talks Friday on the strategy of the war on terrorism, just days after Bush said he would send U.S. troops into Pakistan to capture Osama bin Laden if he received good intelligence on the al Qaeda leader's location.
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The nation's top two intelligence officials flew secretly this month to Pakistan, where they met with President Pervez Musharraf and other Pakistani officials to discuss terrorism, a U.S. intelligence official said Sunday.
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Taleban leader Mullah Omar and al-Qaeda commanders are living in Pakistan, says a senior US official.