At least seven bodies have been recovered after a Taliban attack on a road construction crew in Afghanistan’s southern Helmand province.

A Nato helicopter was shot down in southern Afghanistan today but there was no immediate word on casualties.

A helicopter on contract to Nato-led forces crashed today in southern Afghanistan, killing six civilians on board and an Afghan child on the ground.

Armed assailants attacked a man and gouged out his eyes in front of his family during a gruesome assault in southern Afghanistan, officials said today.

US-led coalition and Afghan soldiers “routed” a large number of Taliban fighters in a two-day battle in southern Afghanistan’s poppy-growing heartland, killing more than 50 suspected militants, the coalition said today.

US-led coalition air strikes in southern Afghanistan left at least 30 people, including women and children, killed or wounded, an official said today.

At least 21 civilians were killed during an airstrike in support of Nato forces fighting with insurgents in southern Afghanistan, a senior government official said today.

At least 21 civilians were killed in airstrikes called in by US Special Forces soldiers fighting with insurgents in southern Afghanistan, officials said today.

US-led coalition and Afghan forces clashed with Taliban fighters and called in an airstrike, leaving 24 suspected militants dead and two coalition forces wounded, a statement said today.

A roadside bomb explosion killed one Nato soldier and wounded another today in southern Afghanistan, a spokeswoman said.

British and Afghan forces attacked Taliban strongholds today after repelling a brazen insurgent attack on a police headquarters a day earlier in a southern Afghan town, killing at least 19 militants, the governor’s spokesman said.

At least nine Taliban militants were killed when coalition airstrikes targeted a suspected Taliban hide-out in southern Afghanistan today.