A suicide bomber in Afghanistan has struck a funeral for the victims of an earlier Taliban attack, killing 16 people and wounding 39.

At least seven bodies have been recovered after a Taliban attack on a road construction crew in Afghanistan’s southern Helmand province.

THE United Nations said yesterday it will send more than half of its international staff out of Afghanistan or into more secure compounds following last week’s deadly Taliban attack against UN workers — the most direct targeting of its employees during decades of work in the country.

The United Nations said today that it is temporarily relocating more than half its staff in Afghanistan following last week's deadly Taliban attack.

AMERICAN and Canadian armed forces are investigating reports that friendly fire may have caused the deaths of a US and Canadian soldier during a gun battle at a base in southern Afghanistan.