Two people were wounded in a rocket attack outside Kabul’s luxury Serena Hotel today.

At least 12 people were killed and dozens injured when a powerful car bomb exploded outside the Indian Embassy in the busy centre of Kabul as commuters arrived for work today, officials said.

A private guard working for the international shipping company DHL opened fire and killed the company’s country director and his deputy today before turning the gun on himself, officials said.

The US military yesterday admitted that US airstrikes in Afghanistan on August 22 killed 33 civilians, far more than previously acknowledged.

Nato said two of its soldiers were killed in a suicide car bomb attack in eastern Afghanistan, where the majority of Nato troops are American.

Afghan and Nato officials say a bomb attack against a convoy of international troops has wounded four soldiers and four Afghans.

An explosion at a dog fighting competition killed and wounded dozens of people in southern Afghanistan today.

Australia today relocated its Afghanistan embassy out of a popular luxury hotel in Kabul that Taliban militants stormed yesterday, killing seven people.

Militants with suicide vests, grenades and AK-47 rifles attacked a luxury hotel in Afghanistan today, killing at least six people in the most brazen attack yet on Western civilians in Kabul, witnesses and a Taliban spokesman said.

A suicide bomber in a vehicle targeted a foreign convoy in Kabul today, wounding several people, Afghan officials said.

A bomb ripped through a police bus in a crowded civilian area in Afghanistan this morning, leaving about 30 people dead or wounded, an official and witnesses said.

Afghan officials have arrested seven suspects in connection with an apparent assassination attempt against President Hamid Karzai, a government spokesman said today.

Suspected Taliban militants attacked a local police commander’s home early today, killing five of his family members and sparking a gun battle with police that left 10 insurgents dead, an official said.

THE kidnapped translator for an Italian journalist was beheaded yesterday in southern Afghanistan, a purported spokesman for the Taliban said.

The top general in Afghanistan said today that Nato’s latest offensive is the first of a “rolling series” of operations against Taliban insurgents, some of whom have been fleeing Western forces in the south.

US-led coalition forces mistakenly killed five Afghan police in a clash in a southern province, the government said today.

A roadside bomb in western Afghanistan left three civilians dead and 48 wounded, including 10 children.

A roadside bomb in Afghanistan left two civilians dead and 48 wounded, including 10 children, officials said today.

Coalition forces captured two suspected al-Qaida members during an early morning raid in eastern Afghanistan today, a military statement said.

Nato-led troops dropped leaflets on a southern Afghan town overrun by militants, warning them to leave after their leader was killed in an airstrike, officials said today.

A suicide bomber killed at least 12 people and wounded more than 40, many just arriving for work, in a busy pedestrian alley next to Afghanistan’s Interior Ministry today, officials said.