An American soldier was stabbed to death by an Afghan teenager as he played with a group of local children.

Nato says that a man believed to be a member of the Afghan Local Police has turned his weapon on US-led coalition forces, killing two international service members.

A roadside bomb in eastern Afghanistan has killed 10 members of the Afghan Local Police (ALP), officials said.

About 100 Taliban fighters on motorcycles attacked a northern Afghan village which was working to join the government-sponsored local police programme against the insurgency, killing one villager, police said today.