Italian Premier Romano Prodi’s government has won a Senate vote to keep Italy’s troops in Afghanistan, despite opposition from some radical leftists in the ruling coalition.

A suicide car bomber attacked an Afghan army convoy in western Afghanistan today, wounding three soldiers and two civilians.

Canadian and Afghan troops have killed five Taliban militants in fierce clashes around an opium-rich southern village, the military said.

Militants fired a rocket at a car carrying at least two Unicef workers in western Afghanistan today, killing two Afghans and seriously wounding a third, police said.

Two small bombs exploded in western Afghanistan, causing no casualties or damage, in attacks thought to be linked to a local power struggle, officials said today.

NATO and Afghan troops today began an operation to recover the bodies of 104 people killed in the crash of an Afghan airliner, 10 days after it smashed into a mountain in a snowstorm.

Nato soldiers found human remains, but no survivors, in the wreckage of an Afghan airliner, days after it struck a snowbound peak with 104 people on board.

Nato troops reached the wreckage of an Afghan airliner today, four days after it crashed into a snowy mountain peak, and began the gruesome task of searching for survivors among the 104 people on board.

Aid workers in Afghanistan were abandoning the western city of Heart today after rioters burned their offices and fought with security forces over President Hamid Karzai’s sacking of its warlord governor.

Demonstrators stormed UN compounds and stoned US soldiers in the Afghan city of Herat, a day after the government sacked its warlord governor.

Five people died today in a bomb blast on a bustling street in Herat, Afghanistan.

Forces loyal to the governor of Herat in Afghanistan claimed to have retaken control of the western city today after fierce factional fighting that killed Afghanistan’s aviation minister and left as many as 100 people dead.

Afghan aviation minister Mirwais Khan was assassinated today in the western city of Herat.