Three Afghan journalists held by coalition forces and Afghanistan’s intelligence service for allegedly spreading Taliban propaganda have been freed, Nato said today.

A suicide bomber targeting a Nato convoy in northern Afghanistan hit a passing bus full of wedding party guests today, killing a child and injuring 28 others, police said.

Two Afghan interpreters died today after being wounded in a grenade attack on an international peacekeepers’ base in Kabul.

A man blew himself up with a grenade outside a peacekeepers’ base in Kabul, the Afghan capital, today injuring several people.