Taliban say killed kidnapped Turk in Afghanistan
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Taliban guerrillas said  on Tuesday they had killed a Turk kidnapped last month after  the Turkish construction company he worked for ignored an  ultimatum to leave Afghanistan.
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Afghanistan&#39;s Taliban movement said on  Saturday it had killed one of the two German hostages it was  holding after the end of its deadline, and would kill the other  in less than an hour if its demands were not met.
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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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The body of a slain top Taliban commander was retrieved by his family Thursday, and in exchange militants will release four kidnapped Afghan medical workers, a purported Taliban spokesman said.
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Afghan police killed three Taliban commanders allegedly involved in the abduction of 23 South Koreans two months ago, the Interior Ministry said.
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WANA, Pakistan  - Pro-Taliban militants in   northwest Pakistan beheaded two men they accused of being U.S.   spies and a boy who had been kidnapped was found dead in the   same region, security officials said on Wednesday.
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Afghan police killed a Taliban militant alleged to be behind the July kidnappings of 23 South Korean church workers, authorities said Tuesday. Up to 27 other insurgents were also slain, while separate suicide attacks killed three police officers.
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Afghan Taliban rebels have killed two German hostages after the German government did not respond to demands to withdraw its troops from Afghanistan, a Taliban spokesman says.
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Pakistani authorities are investigating claims by residents of a remote border village that NATO and Afghan forces crossed into Pakistan to search for suspected Taliban militants and killed a local tribesman, officials said Thursday.
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Afghan Taliban rebels killed the second of two German hostages on Saturday after the end of their deadline for Germany to withdraw its troops from Afghanistan and the Afghan government to free all Taliban prisoners.
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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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Pakistani security forces killed a top figure in the Taliban militia fighting U.S. and NATO forces in Afghanistan and captured four other militants Monday, a military official said.
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Afghanistan's Taliban movement said on Saturday it had killed one of two German hostages and would kill the other in less than an hour if its demands were not met.
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The body of a Turkish engineer was found in Afghanistan yesterday, a day after he was kidnapped by gunmen along with his driver and translator.
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ANKARA, Dec 15  - The Turkish ambassador in Afghanistan has confirmed the death of a Turkish engineer kidnapped Tuesday in Afghanistan&#39;s eastern Kunar province, the Anatolia news agency reported Wednesday.
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A spokesman for the Afghan Taleban says the group has killed one of 23 South Korean hostages it is holding.
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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.