Taliban insurgents detonated a truck bomb, then tried to storm a Nato base in eastern Afghanistan today, but coalition forces repelled the attack, killing 14 militants, officials said.

A bomb has exploded in an insurgent attack on a US-led coalition base in eastern Afghanistan, say Afghan officials.

A suicide bomber blew himself up at a police checkpoint today in a volatile area of eastern Afghanistan, killing eight people, police said.

At least seven people have been killed in protests around Afghanistan against the burning of Korans at a US air base.

Thousands staged new demonstrations today over the burning of Korans at a US military base in Afghanistan, evidence that President Barack Obama’s apology has failed to quiet the outrage over the incident.

A suicide bomber hiding explosives in his turban blew himself up inside a mosque during a memorial service for Afghan president Hamid Karzai's assassinated half brother, officials say.

A suicide bomber has killed four people gathered for a memorial service for the Afghanistan president’s half brother, officials say.

Gunmen wearing suicide vests stormed a government building in eastern Afghanistan early today and engaged in a shoot-out with Afghan security forces who surrounded the compound, officials said.

A Nato helicopter gunship inadvertently killed two civilians while attacking suspected insurgents in the northern province of Khost, the alliance announced today.

A suicide car bomb exploded in the eastern Afghan city of Khost today, killing at least eight people and injuring scores of others.

NATO has captured a leader of a Pakistan-based Taliban faction closely tied to al-Qaida.

Nato has captured a leader of a Pakistan-based Taliban faction closely tied to al-Qaida.

THE Taliban is negotiating a peace deal with a Pakistani tribe in the northwest, tribal elders said yesterday, that could give militants access to remote strategic areas on the Afghan border.

Despite glaring security blunders, no US intelligence officials will be fired or disciplined for failing to prevent a 2009 suicide bombing in Afghanistan that killed seven CIA employees in one of the deadliest attacks in the agency’s history.

A suicide car bomber killed a deputy governor and five other people in eastern Afghanistan today, police said.

Nato airstrikes into Pakistan from Afghanistan have killed more than 50 militants.

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.

AFGHAN President Hamid Karzai urged citizens to vote in today’s parliamentary election, despite a Taliban threat warning people not to leave their homes and violence on the eve of the ballot.

Insurgents launched pre-dawn attacks today on a major Nato base in eastern Afghanistan and a nearby camp where seven CIA employees were killed last year in a suicide bombing.

Six American service members and at least a dozen civilians died in attacks today in Afghanistan’s volatile east and south, adding to a summer of escalating violence as Taliban militants push back against stepped-up operations by international and Afghan forces.

A suicide bomber killed 10 civilians today and wounded seven others in an attack on an Afghan army patrol at a bridge in the southern province of Helmand.

The Taliban claimed responsibility today for a suicide bombing inside a US-Afghan base in eastern Afghanistan that killed two Nato service members.

Suspected US missiles hit a compound and a bunker in Pakistan’s tribal region today, killing nine militants as part of an unprecedented wave of strikes since a deadly attack against the CIA across the border in Afghanistan, intelligence officials said.

A suspected US drone attack in Pakistan’s volatile tribal area killed five people, intelligence officials said.

The Afghan parliament has rejected the majority of president Hamid Karzai's second list of cabinet choices in a new setback for the beleaguered leader.

Two US service members and four Afghan policemen were killed today in separate explosions in eastern Afghanistan, an area rife with violence, officials said.

A SUICIDE bomber who killed eight people at a CIA base in Afghanistan was an al-Qaida triple agent who duped Western intelligence services for months before turning on his handlers, jihadist websites boasted yesterday.

THE Taliban claimed responsibility yesterday for bombings that killed 14 people, including eight Americans and an Afghan in a suicide attack in the volatile east, and five Canadians in the south. CIA employees were believed to be among the victims.

The Taliban today admitted they were behind two separate bombings in Afghanistan that killed 13 Westerners.

A suicide bomber at a base in Afghanistan’s volatile east killed eight American civilians, US officials said, the worst loss of life for Americans in the country since October.

Taliban militants attacked government buildings in the south-eastern Afghan city of Khost today with suicide bombers, AK-47 rifles and rocket-propelled grenades, officials said.

A line of Afghan schoolchildren walked past a military checkpoint as a bomb-loaded truck exploded, killing 14 youngsters in a heartbreaking scene captured by a US military security camera.

A series of operations by US forces in eastern Afghanistan targeted an al-Qaida leader and a bomb-making cell, killing 19 militants, the coalition said today.

A private guard working for the international shipping company DHL opened fire and killed the company’s country director and his deputy today before turning the gun on himself, officials said.

At least nine Afghan soldiers were killed by US planes in a “friendly fire” incident today.

Pakistan warned US troops not to intrude on its territory today, after the two anti-terror allies traded fire along the volatile border with Afghanistan.

A suicide bomber in a vehicle attacked a convoy carrying Afghan doctors working for the United Nations in southern Afghanistan today, killing two doctors and their driver and wounding 15 other people, officials said.

Insurgents attacked a police convoy in central Afghanistan today, killing 11 police and wounding one, an official said.

Afghan and international forces have killed several militants in eastern and southern Afghanistan, the US-led coalition said today.

A raid by US forces has killed six civilians in eastern Afghanistan, including two children and a woman, an Afghan official said today.

A suicide attacker on foot blew himself up near a Nato convoy in southern Afghanistan today, seriously wounding three civilians, while a roadside bomb killed a policeman in the east, officials said.

THE US military regrets any offence it may have caused by handing out a soccer ball emblazoned with the name of Allah on it as part of a public relations exercise in Afghanistan, a spokesman said yesterday.

The US military regrets any offense it may have caused by handing out a soccer ball emblazoned with the name of Allah on it as part of a botched public relations exercise in Afghanistan, a spokesman said today.

Taliban militants wearing Afghan army uniforms attacked a remote Nato base in eastern Afghanistan today, leaving two Afghan soldiers dead and 11 alliance soldiers wounded, a statement from Nato said.