ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Jan. 2 (UPI) -- The Pakistani military is making progress against Taliban militants threatening Pakistan-to-Afghanistan supply routes, U.S. military officials said Friday.

KABUL, Afghanistan, Dec. 10 (UPI) -- U.S. troops erroneously killed six Afghan police officers and one civilian Wednesday in an attack on a suspected Taliban leader's hideout, officials said.

BAGHDAD, Aug. 9 (UPI) -- Militant Shiite cleric Moqtada Sadr says he'll disband his Mehdi Army militia if the United States agrees to a timetable for withdrawal from Iraq.

BAGHDAD, July 15 (UPI) -- U.S. forces in Iraq Tuesday announced the capture of the suspected leader of an al-Qaida bombing ring allegedly affiliated with Hezbollah.

KABUL, Afghanistan, Feb. 5 (UPI) -- A land mine blast killed six Afghan police officers in the southern province of Kandahar as an offensive by the Islamist Taliban movement escalated Sunday.

KABUL, Afghanistan, Nov. 2 (UPI) -- Security has been tightened at a U.S. military detention facility in Afghanistan after an escapee was named as a suspected al-Qaida leader in Southeast Asia. Omar al-Farouq, who escaped with three others from the Bagram military base in July, was consider

KABUL, Afghanistan, July 11 (UPI) -- Four prisoners, described as "dangerous enemy combatants," have escaped from the Bagram U.S. air base in Afghanistan, which houses al-Qaida suspects.

WASHINGTON, June 28 (UPI) -- A U.S. service member is missing after apparently slipping into a swollen Afghan river, U.S. Central Command reported Tuesday.

KABUL, Afghanistan, June 19 (UPI) -- As many as 20 suspected Taliban members were killed by U.S. military in southern Afghanistan after an American patrol came under attack by militants.