MOSUL, Iraq, Aug. 5 (UPI) -- Iraqi security forces under U.S. supervision captured several insurgent members of Sunni terrorist group Ansar al-Islam operating in the northern city of Mosul.

TRIPOLI, Lebanon, June 17 (UPI) -- The reported return of a veteran Palestinian bomb maker to his old stomping grounds in the port city of Tripoli in north Lebanon is ringing alarm bells because there are fears that he will link up with a jihadist group that is reforming after being battered by the Lebanese army two years ago.

UPI Almanac for Monday, June 8, 2009.

McChrystal faces questions on Afghan, Iraq duty; Haqqani network gravest Afghan threat; Deputy UNAMA envoy arrives in Kabul; Kurds submit report on Kirkuk; KRG praised for election work; SOFA deadline honored

WASHINGTON, May 12 (UPI) -- A shift in the war in Afghanistan helped set the stage for the removal of Gen. David McKiernan as U.S. commander in the country, Pentagon officials said.

BAQUBA, Iraq, Jan. 28 (UPI) -- Unmanned aerial vehicles have proven their worth in the war on terror as reconnaissance and surveillance platforms that provide battlefield commanders with real-time, optically enhanced streaming video of terrain, suspicious movements and intelligence-driven targets of interest.

TEHRAN, Dec. 9 (UPI) -- Saudi security forces established a unit made up of al-Qaida fighters as a bulwark to growing Iranian sympathy in the region, Iranian media claim.

FALLUJAH, Iraq, Nov. 21 (UPI) -- U.S. forces operating in the western Iraqi province of Anbar killed the fourth senior leader of al-Qaida in Iraq in the past six weeks, an analysis shows.

YETHRIB, Iraq, Oct. 30 (UPI) -- The 38,000-pound Caiman armored vehicles stopped at the fringe of this rural village and disgorged a group of U.S. soldiers and Iraqi police. Their mission: seek out and detain a half-dozen men wanted by the Iraqi government for terrorism-related offenses.