Militants tried to blast their way into an American base in eastern Afghanistan today, striking before dawn with rocket-propelled grenades and a vehicle packed with explosives.

Two civilians were killed when a motorcycle-rickshaw packed with explosives blew up as it was driving through the outskirts of southern Afghanistan’s main city today, officials said.

A car bomb has exploded outside a bank in a major southern Afghanistan city, killing four people, officials said.

A suicide bomber hiding explosives in his turban blew himself up inside a mosque during a memorial service for Afghan president Hamid Karzai's assassinated half brother, officials say.

Two blasts have gone off at the police headquarters in Afghanistan’s second-largest city.