American forces arrest Ezzat al-Douri, 70 men were killed trying ...
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The Iraqi ministry of defense announced detention of Ezzat Ibrahim al-Douri, the former Iraqi vice President. A spokesman for the ministry said that al-Douri was arrested while taking medical treatment in
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Bombings and shootings killed more than 70 people in Iraq on Tuesday in a surge of bloodshed as U.S. forces prepare to take back Baghdad's streets from gunmen. The dead included 20 Iraqi troops, a U.S. soldier and a British soldier.
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U.S.-led multinational forces have detained a key leader in the Muslim militant network in Iraq headed by al Qaeda ally Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the U.S. military said Saturday.
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An Islamic militant wanted in connection with the murder of American journalist Daniel Pear was killed in a shootout with police, according to Pakistani authorities on Wednesday, who also announced the arrest of a suspect in the
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Pakistani security forces arrested more  suspected Islamic militants a day after they shot dead a key  suspect wanted in a failed bid on President Pervez Musharraf's  life and the killing of U.S. journalist Daniel Pearl.
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CAIRO, Egypt - A video posted Monday on a Web site showed the beheading of a man identified as American hostage Eugene Armstrong.    The militant group led by Jordanian terror mastermind Abu Musab al-Zarqawi claimed responsibility for the slaying and said another hostage - either another American or a Briton held by the group - will be killed in 24 hours unless all Muslim women prisoners are released from U.S...
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U.S.-backed Iraqi forces seized a man  believed to be the most wanted Saddam Hussein aide still on the  run in a bloody raid in which 70 of his supporters were killed  and 80 captured, Iraqi officials said on Sunday.
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Fourteen people were arrested for allegedly seeking to free an al-Qaida sympathizer imprisoned for planning a terrorist attack on U.S. air base personnel.
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Iraqi police and U.S. forces have captured two militants suspected of involvement in the abduction of three U.S. soldiers south of Baghdad earlier this year, the U.S. military said on Thursday.
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A militant group headed by al Qaeda ally  Abu Musab al-Zarqawi has killed an American captive in Iraq  after the lapse of a 24-hour deadline on Tuesday, Arabic  channel Al Jazeera said.
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Hundreds of U.S. and Iraqi troops, under cover of F-16s, fought their way into three neighborhoods of besieged Baqouba on Friday to help clear Diyala province of entrenched insurgents. To the north of the city, American helicopters killed 17 al-Qaida gunmen trying to sneak past a checkpoint.
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Insurgents linked to al-Qaida issued a video Monday claiming they killed all three U.S. soldiers captured in an ambush last month. "They were alive and then dead," a voice said during a sequence of images that included the military IDs of two Americans still missing.
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FALLUJA, Iraq  - U.S. forces Tuesday arrested the  top cleric in Iraq's volatile western Anbar province after  fighting in the regional capital of Ramadi, witnesses said.
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Pakistani forces following up on a raid that killed a top al-Qaida fugitive arrested four more suspected extremists Monday, while the US Embassy warned that security constraints
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U.S. troops captured an alleged Shiite militia leader and three other suspects in a raid south of Baghdad, the U.S. military said Friday.
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The U.S. military said American and Afghan forces killed seven suspected al-Qaida operatives Thursday after coming under fire during a raid in eastern Afghanistan. Police, however, claimed those killed were members of two families trying to resolve a dispute.
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U.S. and Iraqi troops have detained 16 people they say are "directly related to the attack" on May 12 in which three U.S. soldiers were apparently captured, a U.S. military official said. The body of one of the three missing soldiers was found Wednesday, floating in the Euphrates River.