Top Afghan militant 'captured'
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A leading Afghan Taleban fighter is captured after a shootout in south-west Pakistan, police say.
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A Kashmiri guerrilla leader wanted for more than 15 years was captured by Indian paramilitary soldiers and police today during a raid on a militant hideout.
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Pakistan says it has arrested the head of a militant Islamic group suspected of kidnapping UN workers in Afghanistan.
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A Briton and two other foreigners helping to organise Afghanistan&#39;s first presidential election have been kidnapped by armed men in Kabul, triggering fears that militants
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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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An official said the capture of the security chief, Toor Naqibullah Khan, could help U.S. and Afghan forces track down Omar, one of the most wanted fugitives since the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan in 2001.
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WASHINGTON -- A US citizen who was captured in Afghanistan and is being held as an enemy combatant remains in US custody Thursday.
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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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ISLAMABAD, Pakistan -- A man who launched a militant Islamic group to fight US forces in Afghanistan has been arrested in connection with the kidnapping of three UN workers there in October, a senior Pakistani Cabinet minister said yesterday.
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Pakistani security forces captured the former Taliban defense minister, Pakistani intelligence officials said Friday, in what would be the highest-ranking leader from the Afghan insurgency to be arrested since it lost power in 2001.
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Afghan security forces captured  Taliban leader Mullah Mohammad Omar's personal security chief  on a bus to Kandahar, an Afghan security official in the  southern city told Reuters Tuesday.
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ISLAMABAD/KABUL  - Pakistani security forces captured one of the Taliban's top leaders hours after U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney's unannounced visit to Pakistan this week, a senior security official and Taliban sources said.
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US forces have captured a man described as a senior commander of a militant group linked to al Qaeda ally Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the Iraqi government said on Wednesday.
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Hamas security forces in the Gaza Strip seized on Monday a leading member of the al Qaeda-inspired Army of Islam, the group which says it is holding a BBC correspondent hostage.
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Four Islamist militants involved in a siege at a Palestinian refugee camp have been captured, Lebanon's army says.
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QUETTA, Pakistan  - Pakistani security forces wounded and captured a top Taliban commander, Mullah Mansour Dadullah, in an operation on Monday near the border with Afghanistan, intelligence officials said.
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Pakistani police say they have captured a leading militant, Qasim Toori, in a shoot-out in the city of Karachi.