Four Nato service members were killed today in an insurgent attack in eastern Afghanistan, the coalition said.

A plot to assassinate the former British ambassador to Afghanistan was foiled, the UK’s current representative in Kabul has said.

Five French soldiers and an Afghan civilian have been killed in a bombing in Afghanistan’s eastern Kapisa province.

Eight people have been killed and four others injured in a suicide attack in Afghanistan’s north-eastern Kapisa province, an official said today.

AFGHAN rebel commander Gulbuddin Hekmatyar said he is proud that the US has branded him a terrorist and echoed Osama bin Laden’s call for suicide attacks against Americans, according to a statement released yesterday.