Pashtun leader killed in drive-by shooting in Wana
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WANA: Unidentified gunmen shot dead an ethnic Pashtun politician early on Wednesday in a drive-by attack, officials said. Shah Alam Wazir, 55, leader of the Pushtoonkhwa Milli Awami Party (PkMAP), was believed
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Iraqi tribal leader Abdul Sattar Abu Risha, a key figure in U.S. efforts to turn local residents against Al Qaeda in the restive Anbar province, was killed today by a roadside bomb, U.S. military and Iraqi sources confirmed.
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GILGIT, Pakistan  - At least 11 people were  killed, six of them burned alive, in remote northern Pakistan  on Saturday in violence that erupted after an attack on a  minority Shi'ite Muslim leader, official and hospital sources  said.
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A wanted Taliban insurgent leader in Afghanistan, Mullah Brother, was killed on Thursday in a U.S.-led raid in the southern province of Helmand, the Afghan Defence Ministry said, citing ground commanders.
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The leader of a splinter faction of   Nepal's Maoist rebels said on Sunday his group had shot and   killed a member of the Himalayan nation's parliament.
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A Pakistani provincial government minister is shot dead as she prepares to address a political meeting.
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A leading pro-Taliban Sunni Muslim cleric together with an associate were shot dead in southern Pakistan yesterday, the latest attack in religious violence that has already killed more than 70 people this month.
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A key leader of an alliance of Sunni Arab tribes that was instrumental in pushing al Qaeda out of Iraq's western Anbar province was killed in a roadside bomb attack on Thursday, police said.
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The leader of the Karen National Union, one of the biggest ethnic groups fighting Myanmar's military government, was killed Thursday in Thailand
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Taliban fighters have killed four Afghan police and wounded four others in a drive-by shooting at a checkpoint in south Afghanistan, police say.
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A senior al-Qaeda leader in Afghanistan, Abu Laith al-Libi, has been killed, senior Western officials say.
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A Taliban leader has been killed in Afghanistan, the country's government said today, as the deaths of a British soldier and a civilian translator were confirmed after an explosion in the country's south.
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Senior figure and leader of Taliban in Helmand province dies of injuries in south-west Pakistan
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Pakistan&#39;s security forces have shot dead an al-Qaeda militant accused of an assassination attempt on President Pervez Musharraf and involvement in the killing of US journalist Daniel Pearl.
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KANDAHAR, Afghanistan  - Gunmen riding motorcycles   shot dead the head of a women's department in the southern   Afghan province of Kandahar on Monday, a security official and   a relative said.
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The leader of a paramilitary faction involved in peace talks was apparently one of five insurgents killed in an ambush on Monday, officials said.
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The Pakistani opposition leader Benazir Bhutto was killed in a gun and suicide bomb attack at a political rally being held near Islamabad on Thursday, according to Pakistanâs state news agency.