BASRA, Iraq, Aug. 11 (UPI) -- Iraqi lawmakers from southern Basra province said they, along with tribal leaders, are pushing for a federalized region on par with Iraqi Kurdistan.

BAGHDAD, May 3 (UPI) -- U.S. Army Maj. Gen. William Caldwell Thursday said he cannot yet confirm Iraqi terrorist leaders Abu Ayyub al-Masri and Abu Omar al-Baghdadi were killed.

BAGHDAD, May 3 (UPI) -- An al-Qaida leader believed to have been involved in the kidnapping of journalist Jill Carroll has been killed in Iraq, the U.S. military said Thursday.

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Oct. 5 (UPI) -- The self-styled Taliban spokesman -- captured earlier this week in Pakistan -- said Taliban supreme leader Mullah Mohammed Omar is still in Afghanistan.

KABUL, Afghanistan, Sept. 16 (UPI) -- Violence has claimed the life of another candidate in Afghanistan's parliamentary election.

ZABUL, Afghanistan, July 16 (UPI) -- The Taliban is claiming responsibility for the kidnapping and hanging of an Afghan tribal chief who was a supporter of President Hamid Karzai.

ASADABAD, Afghanistan, June 29 (UPI) -- Afghanistan's militant Muslim Taliban claimed Wednesday it was responsible for shooting down a U.S. twin-rotor CH-47 Chinook helicopter with 17 aboard.

KABUL, Afghanistan, June 19 (UPI) -- Rebel Taliban fighters in Afghanistan have announced the killing of a police chief captured with other officials in Kandahar province.

KABUL, Afghanistan, June 9 (UPI) -- A Taliban spokesman has said anyone working for the United States is a target, after four people were killed on U.S. bases in southeast Afghanistan Wednesday.