The Taliban’s top military commander has been captured in Pakistan, it was reported today.

SUSPECTED Taliban militants armed with bombs, rifles and rocket-propelled grenades launched near-simultaneous assaults yesterday on Afghan and US facilities in two eastern cities, killing six Afghan police and intelligence officers.

A TALIBAN firing squad executed a young Afghan couple for trying to elope, it has emerged.

A Taliban firing squad executed a young Afghan couple for trying to elope, it emerged today.

A suicide bomb attack by a fake beggar inside a regional prosecutor’s office and a shoot-out between police and Taliban militants killed 15 people in Afghanistan on today, officials said.

Twenty-four Taliban militants died in clashes with Afghan and foreign troops in southern Afghanistan it was revealed today. The insurgents were believed to be responsible for an attack on a road-building project days earlier.

A suicide bomber targeted a supply convoy for Nato-led troops in southern Afghanistan today, killing a local guard and wounding four others, while a separate clash left four militants dead, officials said.

Al-Qaida has sent several fighters from Iraq to join insurgents in Afghanistan, a provincial governor said after interrogating an Iraqi suspect who was caught sneaking across the country’s western border.

An aid group in Afghanistan said it was considering pulling out of part of the country after Taliban militants attacked its compound in a southern town yesterday, killing three people and engaging authorities in a gun battle.

Afghan security forces have killed three suspected Taliban rebels and arrested 13 others in different regions of southern Afghanistan, according to officials.

Suspected Taliban rebels fired rockets and machine guns at a checkpoint manned by Afghan soldiers in a remote southwestern region of the country, killing eight troops in the nighttime attack, the area’s governor said today.

TWO of terror mastermind Osama Bin Laden’s many sons may have been wounded and captured in an Afghan gun battle with US troops that left seven al-Qaida members dead, a senior Pakistan official said tonight.

The claim made by Pakistan's home minister, Sanaullah Zehri, that two of Osama bin Laden's sons have been captured have not been confirmed by other Pakistani ministries.