Another set of photographs apparently showing US troops posing with the bodies of dead insurgents in Afghanistan has been published.

Anti-American demonstrations are under way on the outskirts of the Afghan capital and in another city over an incident that the US says was inadvertent burning of Muslim holy books at a military base.

No British spies will be charged over their alleged complicity in the torture of two terror suspects but a new investigation will be held into allegations of rendition in Libya, the top prosecutor in England and Wales said today.

A BRITISH court has issued a landmark ruling that may lead to American forces releasing a Pakistani man held without charges for eight years.

Taliban militants dug a lengthy tunnel underground and into the main jail in Kandahar city and whisked out more than 450 prisoners, most of whom were Taliban fighters, officials and insurgents said today.

AL-QAIDA chief Osama bin Laden is involved in an unfolding plot to launch attacks on European cities and may have also targeted the United States, a radio report said.

Insurgents launched a brazen pre-dawn assault today against the giant US-run Bagram Air Field, the second Taliban strike at Nato forces in and around the capital in as many days.

A FORMER Guantanamo detainee is to press justice and foreign officials about EU countries accepting more former prisoners and the efforts being made to close the controversial detention camp.

Up to 10 people including Nato staff were killed in a suicide bomb attack on a convoy near a military base outside Kabul today.

US president Barack Obama’s Justice Department shocked human rights activists today as it backed the former Bush administration, saying detainees in Afghanistan had no constitutional rights.

US PRESIDENT BUSH wrapped up a whirlwind trip to two war zones yesterday that in many ways was a victory lap without a clear victory.

A Pentagon jury will consider its a verdict on a former driver and alleged bodyguard for Osama bin Laden today as the US nears completion of its first war crimes trial since the Second World War.

The judge in the first American war crimes trial since the Second World War barred evidence obtained by interrogators from Osama bin Laden’s driver, ruling he was subjected to “highly coercive” conditions in Afghanistan.

The Taliban released a French woman aid worker abducted three weeks ago, but said today a French man and three Afghan colleagues would not be freed until French troops leave Afghanistan.

An al-Qaida member who escaped from a US prison in Afghanistan urged his followers in a new video aired today to acquire nuclear technology.

As Nato troops exert pressure on Taliban forces in southern Afghanistan, militants have regrouped in western provinces and ignited violence that has killed a dozen people in two days, officials said today.

The international Red Cross today said it hoped to visit the US prison camp at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, this week because of the suicides of three inmates.

The international Red Cross said today it hoped to visit the US prison camp at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, this week because of the suicides of three inmates.

US President George Bush made a surprise visit to Afghanistan today, flying there secretly to support its fledgling government in the face of rising violence from al-Qaida and Taliban militants.

A British man who was held at Guantanamo Bay said today that fears of a Muslim threat in Britain and Europe had been blown out of proportion.

A PLANE used by the United States for an alleged illegal snatch of a terrorist suspect passed through Shannon during the operation, it has been revealed.

The US military today acknowledged it held an Afghan man for a month after receiving him from three American counter-terror vigilantes who have since been arrested on charges of torture at a private jail they ran in the Afghan capital.

A US soldier died in Afghanistan today of a “non-combat-related” head injury, the military said, and the death was being looked into by its criminal investigators.

SEVEN US soldiers were killed and three injured in an explosion yesterday, US Central Command said. One American soldier was missing.

Seven US soldiers were killed, one was missing and three were injured in an explosion at an arms cache in Afghanistan today, the US Central Command said.

US soldiers backed up by F-16s and Apache attack helicopters killed at least two suspected Taliban rebels and captured three others in eastern Afghanistan, the military said today.

The capture of Saddam Hussein could make it easier to catch the world’s other top fugitive – al-Qaida mastermind Osama bin Laden – and dampen support for the growing insurgency in Afghanistan, allied officials in Kabul claimed.

A LOUD explosion was heard near the US embassy in the Afghan capital Kabul yesterday, while a government worker was killed in an ambush.

HILLARY CLINTON was in Afghanistan yesterday to visit troops who have been stationed in the country since the toppling of the Taliban regime.

A transport helicopter packed with American soldiers crashed near a military base just north of the Afghan capital of Kabul, killing at least five of them and wounding seven others, the US military said.

Five US soldiers were killed and seven injured when their helicopter crashed near the American military headquarters north of the Afghan capital.

AMERICAN troops clashed with suspected Taliban near a remote outpost in fighting that killed one American and wounded two others, the latest violence in Afghanistan's increasingly virulent insurgency, officials said yesterday.

A US soldier has been killed and two others wounded in a clash with suspected Taliban rebels in southeastern Afghanistan, the US military said.

Two American soldiers died today after a battle with suspected Taliban fighters.

US jets bombed an area of southeastern Afghanistan today killing up to 16 Taliban guerrillas.

Insurgents fired a volley of rockets at a US base in south-east Afghanistan, prompting coalition forces to return fire with artillery, a US military spokesman said today.

A coalition convoy was ambushed in south-eastern Afghanistan, injuring two coalition troops and an Afghan soldier, the US military said today.

A coalition convoy was ambushed in south-eastern Afghanistan, injuring two coalition troops and an Afghan soldier, the US military said today.

A suspected suicide bomber attacked a bus carrying German peacekeepers through Kabul today, killing at least three soldiers and wounding eight in the deadliest attack on the international force in Afghanistan, US officials said.

US-BACKED Afghan troops killed eight suspected Taliban and captured 15 others in fighting against extremists holed up in the Torghar mountains of southern Afghanistan, the US military said yesterday.

Hundreds of US troops hunting remnants of the al-Qaida network in eastern Afghanistan today fanned out into the mountains and villages.

A warehouse filled with gunpowder exploded near a United States-run military base north of the Afghan capital Kabul, killing an Afghan and injuring three others, an Army spokesman said today.

American special forces killed five attackers after they were ambushed in eastern Afghanistan, a US military spokesman said today.

Military officials in the United States were today investigating what caused a Black Hawk helicopter carrying 13 soldiers to crash during a training mission in upstate New York.