BETWEEN 40 and 50 suspected Taliban militants have been killed in heavy fighting with Afghan forces backed by US attack helicopters and "tank buster" aircraft near the Pakistan border, the US military said yesterday.

Bombers killed three Iraqi national guardsmen, a police chief and one of his officers today in the militants’ unrelenting attacks against the country’s security forces.

A roadside bomb was detonated in the Iraqi capital Baghdad today, killing a local police chief and another officer.