A Nato airstrike killed 11 suspected Taliban militants hiding in a southern Afghan compound, an alliance spokesman said today.

Two roadside bombs wounded four Canadian soldiers and killed another today - Nato’s fourth fatality since taking command in southern Afghanistan this week - a Canadian military spokesman said.

Afghan forces have killed 19 Taliban rebels as they traded rocket-propelled grenades and small arms fire with insurgents in volatile southern Afghanistan.

Two Canadian soldiers were killed in a suicide bomb attack on a coalition vehicle in Afghanistan.

A suicide attacker rammed an explosive-laden car into a coalition vehicle in Kandahar, Afghanistan, today, wounding some coalition soldiers and seven civilians, officials say.

US ARTILLERY and air strikes killed between 50 and 60 suspected Taliban militants yesterday, the fourth day of a Nato-led offensive in southern Afghanistan, a Nato spokesman said.

US-led coalition aircraft killed about 60 suspected Taliban militants and 16 civilians in an airstrike on a rebel stronghold in southern Afghanistan, an Afghan governor said today.

US-led coalition aircraft killed about 50 suspected Taliban rebels in an airstrike on a rebel stronghold in southern Afghanistan, the coalition said today.

Heavy fighting involving several hundred Taliban fighters and Afghan and coalition forces in southern Afghanistan killed about a dozen police, a Canadian soldier and more than 30 militants.

Nato led troops have ended an operation to gather information about the support network helping Radovan Karadzic evade arrest.