A suicide bombing at an outdoor dog fighting competition killed 80 people and wounded scores more today, an Afghan governor said, in what appeared to be the deadliest terror attack in Afghanistan since the fall of the Taliban in 2001.

AFGHAN security forces have captured Taliban leader Mullah Mohammad Omar’s personal security chief as he travelled in a van to the southern city of Kandahar, provincial officials said yesterday.

US and Afghan troops backed by warplanes fought Taliban militants in the mountains of southern Afghanistan overnight, killing 13 insurgents and arresting eight.

US troops killed five suspected Taliban fighters and detained five more, including two commanders, after an ambush on their patrol in southern Afghanistan.

Afghans approved an historic new constitution today – two years after the fall of the Taliban.