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Operation Anaconda -- the largest U.S.-led ground offensive since the Gulf War -- ended as American and Canadian forces pulled out of the Shah-e-kot region in eastern Afghanistan, the head of coalition forces in Afghanistan said Tuesday.

An estimated 800 al Qaeda and Taliban fighters died trying to stave off a 12-day U.S. and allied assault in eastern Afghanistan's Shah-e-kot Valley, U.S. officials said Wednesday.

The U.S.-led military mission in eastern Afghanistan known as Operation Anaconda is complete, a U.S. military official said Monday.

The U.S. Army presented the Purple Heart on Friday to six soldiers wounded on Saturday in Operation Anaconda in eastern Afghanistan.

Hundreds of U.S.-led coalition forces scoured mountains in eastern Afghanistan's Shah-e-kot Valley on Sunday in search of remaining Taliban and al Qaeda fighters, but Pentagon officials said their offensive was winding down.

The U.S.-led coalition battling al Qaeda and Taliban forces in Afghanistan is shifting its focus farther south, military officials said Tuesday, responding to unconfirmed reports that Osama bin Laden had been seen in southeastern Afghanistan.

A series of early morning raids in the Pakistani cities of Lahore and Faisalabad netted an undisclosed number of suspected terrorists, police in Punjab province said Thursday.

Pakistani authorities may have captured a very senior member of al Qaeda after a series of raids on suspected al Qaeda and Taliban hideouts, a senior U.S. official said Saturday.

Pakistan's police force and military were on high alert Monday while a special committee investigated a grenade attack that killed five people, including two Americans, the day before at a church in Islamabad's diplomatic quarter.

As the United States removes members of its diplomatic staff from Pakistan because of threats against American interests, Pakistan's president, Gen. Pervez Musharraf, said Saturday he would use all possible means to rid the country of terrorists.

As fighting between U.S.-allied forces and remaining al Qaeda, Taliban and their loyalist fighters raged in eastern Afghanistan on Saturday, Pakistan continued to take steps to ensure the hard-core fighters do not receive assistance from inside or along its border.

A spokesman for Pakistan's president said Tuesday the key suspect in the kidnap-slaying of American journalist Daniel Pearl will be tried in Pakistan.

Pentagon officials confirmed Monday that U.S. troops found a laboratory near the former Taliban stronghold of Kandahar that could have been used in the production of anthrax.

A 15-day mutiny by Papua New Guinea soldiers worried about job cuts ended at the weekend with one shot fired when loyal troops launched a surprise raid.

Sydney's 25th Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras parade erupted in a sea of sequins, stilettos, bare breasts, waxed chests, feather boas and thunderous cheers.

U.S. troops operating near Kandahar discovered a chemical and biological research facility built by al Qaeda forces in the region, the U.S. military said Saturday.

Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf has sacked Islamabad's two most senior police officers in the wake of Sunday's church grenade attack in the capital.

Six soldiers wounded on Saturday in Operation Anaconda in eastern Afghanistan received Purple Hearts Friday during a ceremony at Bagram Air Base. CNN's Martin Savidge covered the event and spoke to one of the recipients during CNN's American Morning with Paula Zahn.

North Korea has said it would only respond to U.S. calls for talks if President George W. Bush recognized its political system and adopted policies of the previous Clinton administration.

A rescue operation is under way in an Afghan village, where damage from a weekend earthquake threatens thousands of people.

The parents of British backpackers killed in an Australian hostel fire have expressed relief at the conviction of the arsonist and murderer.

Despite suffering casualties and meeting unexpectedly heavy resistance one day earlier, U.S. troops were eager Tuesday to engage al Qaeda and Taliban fighters holed up in the mountains of eastern Afghanistan. CNN's Martin Savidge and cameraman Scott McWhinnie accompanied soldiers of the 101st Airborne and 10th Mountain divisions. He shared his experience Tuesday night with CNN anchor Aaron Brown.

Authorities are attempting to assess the final death toll after the strongest quake in 18 years was felt throughout Central and South Asia.

Officials with the World Health Organization said Friday that they believed a vitamin C deficiency is at the root of an outbreak of disease in a remote, central Afghan province.

A young Sri Lankan woman has filed for divorce three months into her marriage after discovering her husband was really a woman, a newspaper reported.

Thousands of security forces in northern India remain on high alert after a symbolic ceremony by Hindus to hand over a consecrated stone was conducted peacefully.

Police in Singapore are dealing with a growing number of bogus monks and nuns seeking to make a quick buck from gullible Singaporeans, a newspaper reported Sunday.

A Singapore woman has confessed in court to biting her teenaged maid's nipple until it fell off, local media reports said.

The chief U.S. climate negotiator has said that the Kyoto Protocol on climate change abandoned by his country would not save tiny Pacific islands from rising sea levels.

China has banned professional soccer matches in the central city of Xian following the rioting of fans over the weekend.

China's roads are becoming increasingly deadly as the country continues its rapid move from two wheels to four, latest figures released by the government show.

At least 35 people have been killed by a storm that battered the central and southern Philippines, a Philippine disaster agency reported Wednesday.

A former Taiwan politician embroiled in a gripping sex scandal launched her singing debut in Singapore to an enthusiastic middle-aged audience late Friday.

Thailand plans to launch what it says is the world's cheapest anti-AIDS drug cocktail next month.

Crowds of thousands have rallied against the Australian government's policy of detaining asylum seekers.

The following is a list of U.S. military personnel who have died in the war against terror, which began October 7, 2001.

The following is a list of U.S. military personnel who have died in the war against terror, which began October 7, 2001.

Five people are confirmed dead and more than 200 injured as Taiwan begins clean up operations after a powerful 6.8 earthquake hit the island.

The youngest son of Indonesia's former President Suharto has gone on trial in Jakarta charged with murder in a case that could see him facing a possible death penalty if convicted.

A miner, buried alive for 21 days after an accident, survived the ordeal by drinking two handfuls of muddy water each day, official media report.

The secretive roaming summit of international security heads, among them the head of America's FBI, has moved on to Malaysia and Singapore.

U.S. and coalition forces regrouped Sunday in eastern Afghanistan to prepare for a final push against hundreds of hard-line al Qaeda and Taliban fighters holed up in the region's caves and mountains.

Britain has expressed disappointment that Zimbabwe has escaped censure from the Commonwealth group of nations.

The United States has brought in several unmanned spy planes to the southern Philippines to help local forces in their war on terrorism.

The United Nations refugee body says it has begun repatriating Afghan refugees from Pakistan under an assistance scheme designed to ease voluntary returns now that spring and some semblance of political normality have come to the war-ravaged country.

As U.S., allied and Afghan forces Tuesday pounded al Qaeda and Taliban fighters hiding in the mountains of eastern Afghanistan's Paktia province, new facts emerged about how seven U.S. service members were killed in fighting one day earlier.

A U.S. airman has been convicted of raping a Japanese woman and has been sentenced to 32 months in jail by a court in Okinawa.

U.S. airstrikes have bombed targets in eastern Afghanistan, as Afghan ground forces joined in the attack on al Qaeda holdouts, according to an Afghan defense ministry official.

Operation Anaconda's chief commander in Afghanistan warned al Qaeda leaders Thursday to sleep with one eye open because U.S., coalition and Afghan forces were not going to let loose of these guys.

Al Qaeda and Taliban fighters in the eastern Afghanistan mountains are taking a beating at the hands of U.S.-led coalition and Afghan forces, U.S. operation commander Maj. Gen. Frank Hagenbeck said Wednesday in Afghanistan.