A report that two of Osama bin Laden's sons have been wounded and captured in Afghanistan, still hasn't been confirmed.

OSAMA BIN LADEN’S captured right-hand man has revealed that the al-Qaida leader is in good health and living in the mountainous border region between Pakistan and Afghanistan, a Pakistani intelligence official said yesterday.

The deaths of two prisoners at a US base in Afghanistan have been ruled as murder by military coroners.

Three men suspected of plotting terrorist activities were arrested by US special forces in a pre-dawn swoop in the Afghan capital Kabul today, the US military said.

ABOUT 200 US special forces and their allies were battling rebels in southeast Afghanistan yesterday in the heaviest fighting since Operation Anaconda nine months ago.

Hundreds of American troops have pressed towards a group of rebel fighters in a cave network in the mountains of south-eastern Afghanistan.

Coalition forces are fighting a pitched battle against a group of 80 rebel forces aligned to renegade leader Gulbuddin Hekmatyar in the largest-scale fighting in nine months, the US military said today.

A US commando has been shot in the leg during an ambush in western Afghanistan, a military spokesman said today.

A sniper shot and wounded a US special forces soldier as he rode in a convoy in eastern Afghanistan, an army spokesman said today.

American troops in Afghanistan have found two warehouses filled with a staggering arsenal believed to belong to a maverick Afghan commander, the military said today.

A group calling itself the Secret Army of Mujahedeen is claiming responsibility for attacks on US troops in Arabic-language leaflets found in eastern Afghanistan.

Coalition forces detained four men after several rocket-propelled grenades were fired at a US special operations forces base in eastern Afghanistan, a US military spokesman said today.

UP TO 15 people were reported dead yesterday after guerillas attacked an Afghan army base south of Kabul.

US soldiers on patrol in eastern Afghanistan have killed four men who opened fire on them in the second attack on American forces in the region in two days.

US soldiers were fired on as they returned to their base in the southern Afghan city of Kandahar today.

Afghanistan’s new government was looking for answers today after dozens of people died when a wedding party was attacked by a US B-52 bomber and a Spectre gunship.

US military officials, the Afghan government and the US Embassy in Kabul were today on their way to the village where about 40 people celebrating a wedding, mainly women and children, were killed and 70 injured after being bombed by American forces.

US helicopter gunships and jets attacked a house while a wedding was under way, killing and injuring scores, witnesses and hospital officials said.

Two rocket propelled grenades were fired last night at an airfield used by US special forces in southern Afghanistan, the army said.

Afghan police are questioning four men about the bombing of tanker trucks carrying fuel to American troops in Kandahar, a US official said today.

Traces of nerve agents and mustard gas have been found in three locations at a US base in Uzbekistan, including a hangar where a headquarters had been set up.

British and US troops have discovered a cache of weapons and explosives during a raid on an Afghan village.