Senior Afghanistan Qaeda leader Libi killed
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A senior Al-Qaeda leader in  Afghanistan, described by Western authorities as one of Osama  bin Laden's top six lieutenants, has been killed, U.S.  officials and an al-Qaeda-linked Web site said on Thursday.
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Iraq's al Qaeda leader, Abu Ayyub al-Masri, has been killed, Al Arabiya television reported on Thursday.
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KANDAHAR, Afghanistan  - A senior commander from  Afghanistan's Taliban militia previously held at a U.S. base in  Guantanamo Bay was killed by Afghan forces in the central  province of Uruzgan, a senior official said on Sunday.
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U.S. forces killed the leader of al Qaeda in Iraq, Egyptian militant Abu Ayyub al-Masri, in the western Iraqi town of Haditha on Wednesday, a government source said on Thursday.
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Afghan soldiers killed a senior Taliban commander and two fighters during an ambush in a central province where clashes with coalition forces are escalating.
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Israel killed a regional head of the Islamic Jihad group in the Jenin region of the West Bank, the Israel Defense Forces said in an e-mailed statement.
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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.
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Senior figure and leader of Taliban in Helmand province dies of injuries in south-west Pakistan
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Abu Laith al-Libbi, one of al-Qaida's top leaders in Afghanistan, has been killed, western intelligence officials say
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Sheikh Abu Risha, who rallied Sunni tribesmen against Al Qaeda, was killed by a roadside bomb on Thursday.
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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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The most prominent figure in a revolt of Sunni sheiks against al-Qaeda in Iraq was killed Thursday in an explosion near his home in Anbar province
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Suspected Taliban fighters assassinated a   senior Afghan police officer, his three bodyguards and a female   relative on Saturday, leaving only the woman's three-month-old   baby alive.
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A leading Al-Qaeda operative in Afghanistan, Abu Laith al-Libi, has been killed, an Islamist website monitored by the US-based service SITE said on Thursday.
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Suspected Islamic militants killed a tribal elder Sunday in northwestern Pakistan, an intelligence official said, in the latest attack against a tribesman suspected of collaborating with authorities.
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The leader of local Sunni tribes in Iraq who have joined American and Iraqi forces in fighting extremist Sunni militants was killed by a bomb today, Iraqi police officials said.
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A Sunni tribal leader instrumental in driving al Qaeda out of Iraq's Anbar province was killed by a bomb attack on Thursday, less than two weeks after he met U.S. President George W. Bush.