Nineteen people have been killed in Afghanistan after a team of suicide bombers targeted a provincial governor’s compound, police have confirmed.

Suicide bombers hit a training area for the new Afghan Local Police force in the country’s east today, killing two trainees and a policeman.

An Afghan civilian has been killed in a road accident involving British forces, the International Security Assistance Force (Isaf) said.

Seven people have been killed at a UN office in Afghanistan as a protest over the reported burning of the Koran turned violent.

An air strike and a raid by ground troops in Afghanistan has killed eight insurgents, including a senior Taliban leader who spearheaded attacks against Afghan security forces in northern Afghanistan, Nato said today.

Three Afghan journalists held by coalition forces and Afghanistan’s intelligence service for allegedly spreading Taliban propaganda have been freed, Nato said today.

A suicide bomber targeting a Nato convoy in northern Afghanistan hit a passing bus full of wedding party guests today, killing a child and injuring 28 others, police said.

Insurgents killed eight Afghan policemen today in a raid on a checkpoint outside the northern city of Kunduz, local police said.

Two US service members and four Afghan policemen were killed today in separate explosions in eastern Afghanistan, an area rife with violence, officials said.

International troops and Afghan police seized 250 tons of ammonium nitrate fertiliser – enough to make hundreds of roadside bombs, the Taliban’s most lethal weapon in what has been the deadliest year of the war.

A joint British and Afghan investigation was under way today amid fears an air strike aimed at suspected insurgents may in fact have killed nine innocent civilians.

Five British soldiers were killed when a rogue Afghan policeman turned his gun on them inside a checkpoint.

Five British soldiers have been killed by a rogue Afghan policeman, British and Afghan officials said today.

The new head of the British Army is warning that Britain’s mission in Afghanistan could last for up to 40 years.

British troops in Afghanistan have carried out one of the biggest air operations of modern times, the Ministry of Defence said.

Suspected Taliban militants ambushed a Nato convoy in southern Afghanistan today, and a gunshot victim said soldiers fleeing the scene shot him and killed a man in a bakery.