A suicide bomber rammed a car packed with explosives into a mini-bus carrying foreign aviation workers to the airport in the Afghan capital early today, killing at least nine people in an attack a militant group said was revenge for an anti-Islam film that ridicules the Prophet Mohammed.

At least 28 people, including civilians, have been killed in a suicide bomb attack on a government office in northern Afghanistan’s Kunduz province, police said today.

Taliban suicide attackers struck Afghanistan’s national peace conference as it opened today but no delegates were hurt and the gathering went ahead as planned.

The Taliban said it was not attending peace talks with the Afghan government in the Maldives.

Afghan's president Hamid Karzai has met a major Taliban-linked insurgent group in a step toward national reconciliation, it was revealed today.