Suicide bombers have killed three members of a Nato patrol in eastern Afghanistan.

Rockets have crashed into a US base and a house in northern Afghanistan along the Pakistan border, killing two Nato soldiers and three civilians, officials say.

Afghan forces with air support from Nato combed through the country's mountainous north-east today on the third day of a major offensive against militants in a province that serves as an insurgent supply route from Pakistan.

Pakistan state TV said the death toll from an alleged Nato helicopter attack on a Pakistani army checkpoint near the Afghan border has risen to 25 soldiers.

Thirteen people killed when a suicide bomber rammed a military convoy in Afghanistan included five coalition troops and eight civilian contractors, Nato has said.

A Taliban suicide bomber rammed a van into an armoured Nato bus today in Kabul, killing 13 American troops and four Afghans, US and Afghan officials said, in the deadliest attack on coalition forces in more than two months.

Suspected Taliban militants are holding a group of around 30 Pakistani boys after luring them into Afghanistan and kidnapping them, Pakistani officials said.

The Taliban released a video today showing fighters executing 16 Pakistani tribal police officers who were captured in a cross-border raid from Afghanistan earlier this summer.

A key al-Qaida commander has been killed in a Nato air strike in Afghanistan, an alliance spokesman said today.

Afghanistan’s president has rejected a US apology for the mistaken killing of nine Afghan boys in a Nato air attack, saying civilian casualties were no longer acceptable.

AFGHAN President Hamid Karzai yesterday told US General David Petraeus, the commander of international troops, that his apology after nine children died in a NATO air strike was “not enough”.

AN investigation into claims international troops killed scores of civilians in northeast Afghanistan escalated into a feud between President Hamid Karzai and senior US military officials who cited a report that Afghan parents have been known to discipline children by burning their hands and feet.

The Taliban took aim at Afghanistan’s intelligence services today, killing four people and injuring more than 30 in two separate attacks, including a suicide bombing on a bus in the capital, officials said.

Two Nato troops were killed in separate attacks in southern Afghanistan today.

British Prime Minister David Cameron will meet the top US general in Afghanistan today amid new claims over the role American forces played in the death of British aid worker Linda Norgrove.

Every effort was made to safely rescue a kidnapped British aid worker who was killed in Afghanistan during an attempt to free her, military commanders and the UK government said today.

A British aid worker being held hostage in Afghanistan was killed by captors during an attempt to rescue her, British Foreign Secretary William Hague said today.

Nine service members with the international coalition in Afghanistan died today when their helicopter crashed in the volatile south where troops are ramping up pressure on Taliban insurgents.

Eight militants were killed today in a gun battle after a suicide car bombing at the entrance to an Afghan airport, authorities said.

The Nato-led command stressed that military operations to secure vast areas of Afghanistan would not be delayed by the ouster of its top commander and mounting casualties.

Hundreds of Islamist militants have attacked a checkpoint on Pakistan’s Afghan border, and nearly three dozen Pakistani paramilitary troops are missing, security officials said today.

The head of a presidential delegation investigating the deaths of 10 people in a village in eastern Afghanistan says civilians were killed in an attack by foreign troops.

Four US troops were killed in an attack in the province of Kunar in Afghanistan today, it was announced.

A helicopter crashed during take-off at southern Afghanistan’s largest Nato base today, killing 16 civilians in the latest in a string of deadly aircraft crashes in the country.

Pakistani troops have defeated Taliban militants in one of their strongholds overlooking the Afghan border after a grinding six-month offensive, the general leading the military operation said today.

Afghan refugees ordered out of a Pakistani war zone have begun flowing over the border into their homeland, worsening a humanitarian crisis resulting from an army offensive against Taliban militants, officials said.

A multi-pronged militant assault on a small, remote US base killed nine American soldiers and wounded 15 in the deadliest attack on US forces in Afghanistan in three years.

A Taliban commander blamed for the deadliest attack on US troops since they entered Afghanistan in 2001 has been killed in a shoot-out with security forces in Pakistan, American and Pakistani officials said today.

There is no evidence that American soldiers desecrated the Koran during a raid on an Afghan home, the US military said today.

An Irish freelance photographer was recovering in hospital today after being wounded during fighting in Afghanistan.

Roadside bombs killed seven Nato soldiers in southern Afghanistan as militants struck back during the Alliance’s biggest anti-Taliban offensive.

Followers of Osama bin Laden flooded Islamist websites today posting messages in celebration of his 50th birthday.

A US-led coalition helicopter crashed in southeastern Afghanistan today after reporting engine failure.

The new governor of Afghanistan’s largest opium-producing province today said he supports a US-backed plan to spray herbicide on lucrative poppy fields, and that he will ask Taliban fighters to support the government.

Nato has launched an investigation into allegations that British forces opened fire on civilians, killing one and wounding six, after a suicide attack earlier this month.

Pakistan’s military had to destroy an Islamic school, killing 80 people in the process, with helicopter-fired missiles to prevent trainee terrorists escaping the building, the army said today as critics denounced the government for using disproportionate force.

Pakistani troops backed by missile-firing helicopters killed an estimated 80 militants today after destroying a purported al-Qaida-linked training facility near the Afghan border, the military said.

Four US soldiers were killed and three others wounded during separate clashes in Afghanistan, a US military spokesman says.

Pakistan has told the US military that an Arab al-Qaida operative who masterminded the London jetliner terror plot is hiding in mountainous terrain in north-eastern Afghanistan, an intelligence official said today.

US-led forces killed eight militants after coming under attack in eastern Afghanistan, the coalition said in a statement today.

A Russian-made helicopter crashed in bad weather in the eastern Afghan mountains yesterday, killing all 16 on board, including at least two American civilians and two Dutch military officers, officials said today.

A ROCKET exploded in a packed school near a US-led coalition base in eastern Afghanistan yesterday, killing seven children and wounding 34 other people, officials said.

A rocket exploded in a packed school near a US-led coalition base in eastern Afghanistan today, killing seven children and wounding 34 other people, officials said.

A roadside bombing today in eastern Afghanistan killed four American troops, the US military said.