Afghan province's women's affairs chief killed
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KANDAHAR, Afghanistan  - Gunmen riding motorcycles   shot dead the head of a women's department in the southern   Afghan province of Kandahar on Monday, a security official and   a relative said.
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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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Gunmen have killed a senior official of  Iraq's main Sunni Muslim party, which last month withdrew from  the Jan. 30 election race it wants postponed, the Iraqi Islamic  Party said Wednesday.
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A policeman dies in a suicide attack outside a police headquarters in eastern Afghanistan, officials say.
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SAMARRA, Iraq  - The acting police chief in the  northern Iraqi town of Samarra was killed Sunday, a police  official 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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A suicide bomb kills An Afghan provincial governor, the highest-ranking official to die in the insurgency.
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An Iraqi police colonel was gunned down near his home in Afak on Sunday, marking the third government official killed in the Iraqi Shiite town in five weeks, an Interior Ministry official said.
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NATO-led troops launched a precision strike Sunday, killing a key Taliban commander near a southern Afghan town overrun by militants, a spokesman for the alliance said.
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A senior Taliban commander involved in the abduction of 23 South Korean missionaries was among dozens of insurgents killed in clashes in southern Afghanistan overnight, police said on Tuesday.
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At least seven supporters of the ousted governor of Herat in western Afghanistan were killed Sunday and 20 wounded in clashes with police and U.S. troops after mobs burned U.N. offices, doctors said.
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KANDAHAR - Afghan forces in the central province of Uruzgan killed a senior commander from Afghanistanâs Taleban militia previously held at a US base in Guantanamo Bay, a senior official said on Sunday.
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One of the Taleban fighters who masterminded the kidnapping of 23 South Koreans in July has been killed, Afghan officials say.
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KABUL, Afghanistan -- A doctor helping organize Afghan elections died yesterday along with four other civilians when an explosion tore through their vehicle, police said. He was the first election worker to die in violence since the landmark vote.
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A soldier has been killed in Helmand province, Afghanistan, says the Ministry of Defence.
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The leader of a splinter faction of   Nepal's Maoist rebels said on Sunday his group had shot and   killed a member of the Himalayan nation's parliament.
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The deputy governor of Afghanistan's Helmand province is killed in a bomb attack on a mosque.