Military divers have found the body of one of two US soldiers who disappeared last week in western Afghanistan, Nato forces said today.

A Nato airstrike in the western province of Badghis mistakenly hit a joint base housing coalition troops and Afghan security forces, killing four Afghan soldiers and three policemen, Afghanistan’s Defence Ministry said today.

The UN-backed commission investigating fraud in Afghanistan's election issued its first orders today to exclude some ballots from the final tally.

Four people were shot to death today in clashes with police as protests over allegations that interrogators in Guantanamo Bay desecrated Islam’s holy book spread to more Afghan cities, officials and witnesses said.

Four people were shot dead in clashes with police as anti-US protests spread to more Afghan cities today, officials and witnesses said.

NOBEL prize-winning relief agency Medecins Sans Frontières (MSF) announced yesterday it was pulling out of Afghanistan because of the killing of five of its staff and the danger of further attacks.

Nobel prize-winning relief agency Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) said today that it was pulling out of Afghanistan because of the killing of five of its staff and the danger of further attacks.

POLICE discovered and defused a bomb planted in a school in a north-western Afghan province in which five humanitarian workers were ambushed and shot dead last week, an official said.

As Taliban defences around Kabul crumbled under the fury of American bombs, the man responsible for it all - Osama bin Laden - was far away in the safety of this mountain fortress.

The Taliban's reclusive leader has appealed to Afghans fleeing the country's capital to return home.

Afghanistan’s Taliban Government has recaptured some of the territory it lost to its enemies in the Northern Alliance over the past few days.