A landslide triggered by heavy rain buried large sections of a remote Afghan village today, killing at least 350 people and leaving more than 2,000 missing.

Afghan police tonight arrested the suspected mastermind behind a "brutal" attack on a UN compound in the country which has killed around 20 people.

A suicide attacker driving an explosives-packed car has blown up the entrance to a United Nations office in western Afghanistan, allowing at least three other militants to storm the building, officials said today.

Afghanistan executed 15 prisoners – one convicted of killing foreign journalists – an official said today, ending three years without the death penalty.

Two gunmen on a motorbike killed the provincial director of Afghanistan’s Ministry of Women’s Affairs outside her home in the southern city of Kandahar today.