Afghan militant leader Gulbuddin Hekmatyar said US troops will be driven out of Afghanistan and Iraq like they were in Somalia, according to a statement obtained today.

The British-led UN peacekeeping force in Afghanistan has asked the country’s interim administration to explain the alleged coup plot which led to the arrest of hundreds of men in Kabul in the past week.

A former Afghan warlord has urged the ruling Taliban regime to form an alliance with other ethnic groups to fight the United States.