Two Taliban commanders caught
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US-LED and Afghan soldiers arrested two senior Taliban commanders and six militants during an operation in south-central Afghanistan, officials said today.
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The leader of a pro-Taliban mosque was captured hiding under a burka last night as he tried to escape a siege.
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US and Afghan troops have killed a Taliban commander and detained 22 suspected Taliban fighters in a major search operation after a gun battle in southern Afghanistan.
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In a grimly familiar scenario, the civilians were caught in a battle between Taliban and NATO forces in southern Afghanistan, the police said today.
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Taliban insurgents have kidnapped two officials of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) in the Afghan province of Wardak, the provincial police chief said on Thursday.
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Pakistani security forces have  captured a high-ranking Taliban leader in the southwestern city  of Quetta, a senior Pakistani security official and Taliban  sources said on Thursday.
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A former Taliban front-line military commander has been arrested in connection with the abduction of three UN workers in Afghanistan in October, a senior Pakistan official said Saturday.
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Suspected Taliban rebels executed two pro-election tribal elders and laid a deadly ambush for an Afghan military commander, officials said today.
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KANDAHAR, Afghanistan  - A commander of Taliban  guerrillas in the southern Afghan province of Uruzgan was  captured last week while trying to hide in a well and handed  over to U.S. forces, the provincial governor said on Monday.
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KABUL, August 30 (Online): US and Afghan soldiers conducting a large sweep arrested 22 suspected Taliban after a firefight in a forbidding mountain region of Zabul province, Afghan and US military officials said .
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Two Taliban fighters were killed in a multinational operation in the south of Afghanistan, the Ministry of Defence (MoD) has revealed.
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A Pakistani military court convicted two low-ranking army officers on charges of involvement in an assassination attempt on President Pervez Musharraf last year, a military spokesman said on Friday.
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The Afghan government said Tuesday it had arrested two "high-ranking European officials" for posing threats to the national security of the war-torn country.
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Pakistani police arrested 17 Afghans  suspected of being Taliban militants, including a former Kabul  police chief and a provincial governor, police said on Friday.
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US Marines said on Saturday they had captured two leaders of a militant group linked to al Qaeda ally Abu Musab al-Zarqawi in Iraq&#39;s restive city of Ramadi.
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The Taliban has launched a new operation targeting government and foreign forces in Afghanistan, a spokesman said Sunday, as two policemen died in an ambush in the volatile south.
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TWO insurgents with links to Iraq&#39;s most wanted man, Abu Musab Al-Zarqawi, have been arrested in the turbulent city of Ramadi, the US Marines said.