A veteran Afghan officer shot dead eight Nato troops and a civilian before being killed himself after an argument at Kabul airport today.

Britain’s military operations in Afghanistan have been harshly criticised by the country’s president Hamid Karzai, local officials and the American commander of Nato troops, according to leaked diplomatic papers.

Two Nato troops were killed in separate attacks in southern Afghanistan today.

A bomb blast killed three Nato troops in western Afghanistan today, a day after six service members died in a spate of attacks by insurgents in the east and south.

A small bomb damaged a truck carrying oil to Nato troops in Afghanistan that was parked near the border, a Pakistan government official said.

Four Nato troops died in separate attacks across Afghanistan today, including a suicide car bomber who targeted a military convoy in the Taliban-dominated south.

The Afghan government took official control of the southern Taliban stronghold of Marjah today as Nato troops worked to root out final pockets of militants.

Two suicide car bombs killed 16 people and wounded about 150 others in separate attacks in north-western Pakistan today, just days after the Taliban warned suicide strikes were coming if the military pressed forward with an offensive.

Afghan and Nato troops killed 15 suspected militants during clashes in southern Afghanistan, where authorities also arrested a senior Taliban commander, officials said today.

Mullah Dadullah, the Taliban’s most prominent military commander, was killed in fighting in southern Afghanistan with Afghan and Nato troops, officials said today.

Nato troops today searched the home of war crimes suspect Radovan Karadzic and questioned his family about the former Bosnian Serb leader’s whereabouts.