US-led coalition troops kiled seven suspected Taliban militants in southern Afghanistan as Australia announced today that six of its special forces soldiers were wounded in the same area earlier this month.

Afghan gunmen today killed an Afghan worker and wounded three others building a road to a US-led coalition base in the south of the country.

Coalition forces attacked a Taliban safe house and killed 14 militants today in eastern Afghanistan, the military said.

Two suicide car bombers launched a failed attack on a US military convoy in southern Afghanistan today, killing only themselves, police said.