A roadside bomb struck a tractor in eastern Afghanistan today, killing three people, including a woman and a child and wounded seven other civilians, an official said.

A suicide bomber in a car targeted a Nato convoy in southern Afghanistan today, killing one Nato soldier and eight civilians, the alliance said in a statement.

A suicide bomber blew himself up today in front of a vehicle carrying Afghan soldiers in eastern Afghanistan.

Clashes and bombings left up to 34 Taliban fighters and one policeman dead in five separate incidents in central and southern Afghanistan, officials said today.

A senior Nato official today likened the tactics of Taliban militants who hide among civilians in Afghanistan to those of Hezbollah in Lebanon, as US and Afghan forces seized bomb-making materials and killed a suspected al-Qaida operative in a raid on a house.

Police killed three Taliban and captured a former mid-level official from the hardline militia’s ousted government in separate incidents, officials said today.

A suspected suicide car bomb hit a US-led coalition convoy in eastern Afghanistan today, wounding an unknown number of soldiers.

Cross-border firing from Afghanistan hit the tent of a nomad family on the Pakistan side of the frontier, killing two women and injuring at least four children, Pakistani officials said today.

A MAN on a motorbike drove up to a crowd watching a wrestling match in an Afghan border town yesterday and detonated a bomb killing 20 people and wounding at least 30 others — the deadliest in a recent spate of attacks.

A series of battles in volatile southern and eastern Afghanistan killed 14 suspected militants, a US soldier and an Afghan soldier, while suspected Taliban rebels fatally shot six civilians in a strong of assaults, officials said today.

Afghanistan’s new leader, Hamid Karzai, has said UN peacekeepers are welcome in his country “for as long as it takes” to restore law and order following 23 years of war.