Taliban authorities have reportedly publicly executed five Afghans for spying for the US.

The United States has killed at least five Afghan civilians in an attack on a Taliban tank unit in the Afghan capital, Kabul today.

Taliban forces battled advancing opposition fighters outside the key city of Mazar-e-Sharif today, fighting to keep control of the northern base.

Three powerful explosions rocked the eastern Afghan city of Jalalabad today as a jet streaked across the sky and dropped at least three bombs.

Afghanistan’s Taliban rulers have said Afghan civilians are destroying humanitarian food supplies air dropped the US military in conjunction with missile attacks on the country’s main cities.