Angered by civilian casualties, Afghan President Hamid Karzai has vowed to no longer allow Nato airstrikes on houses, issuing his strongest statement yet against attacks that the military alliance says are vital to its war on Taliban insurgents.

Afghanistan’s president has rejected a US apology for the mistaken killing of nine Afghan boys in a Nato air attack, saying civilian casualties were no longer acceptable.

Ten campaign workers were killed in a Nato air strike in Afghanistan today, the country’s president Hamid Karzai said.

David Cameron today announced £67m (€81m) in additional funding to counter the threat of Taliban roadside bombs to British troops in Afghanistan, as he made his first trip to the country as Prime Minister.

Sniper teams attacked US Marines and Afghan troops across the Taliban haven of Marjah in Afghanistan as several gun battles erupted on the third day of a major offensive to seize the extremists’ southern heartland.

The US envoy in Afghanistan has objected strongly to emerging plans to send tens of thousands of additional forces to the country, a senior US official said last night.

AFGHANISTAN’S election commission proclaimed President Hamid Karzai the victor of the country’s tumultuous ballot yesterday, cancelling a planned runoff and ending a political crisis two-and-a-half months after a fraud-marred first round.

A top American official at the United Nations mission in Afghanistan has temporarily left the country following a disagreement with his boss over how to respond to the massive allegations of vote fraud in the August 20 presidential election, officials said today.

The threat of violence loomed larger over Afghanistan’s presidential election today as Hamid Karzai’s main rival suggested voting could be rigged.

Afghan President Hamid Karzai made an immediate demand of Barack Obama today, saying the president-elect must prevent civilian casualties as Afghan villagers alleged that airstrikes killed or wounded dozens of women and children in a wedding party.

AFGHAN president Hamid Karzai’s brother denied that he has ever been involved in the heroin trade, and accused US officials of fabricating allegations to harm the president.

US First lady Laura Bush, on a mission to highlight signs of rebirth in war-weary Afghanistan, ventured outside of Kabul today to an area that symbolises both the destruction of war and Afghanistan’s attempt at rebirth.

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.

Gordon Brown today promised new aid to rebuild the shattered economy of Afghanistan as British and Afghan troops seized a key strategic town from the Taliban.