Two people have been killed and 14 others were injured after a group of gunmen stormed a regional office of Save The Children in Afghanistan's eastern Nangarhar province.

A bomb blast killed three Nato troops in western Afghanistan today, a day after six service members died in a spate of attacks by insurgents in the east and south.

Taliban militants determined to scuttle Afghanistan’s parliamentary elections showered rockets on cities today as men and women voted in a key test of the government’s ability to fight insurgents and entrenched corruption.