Afghan gunmen attacked a construction company in Kabul province, wounding one security guard and kidnapping nine others, the Interior Ministry said today.

TEN French Nato soldiers were killed in a Taliban ambush in Afghanistan, officials said yesterday, in the deadliest combat incident for foreign troops since the start of the US-led war in 2001.

AN Afghan warlord faces a life behind bars in a British jail after he was convicted yesterday at the Old Bailey of a “heinous” campaign of torture and hostage taking in his homeland.

A mortar shell slammed into a school near Kabul today, killing a child and injuring about 30 others, a government spokesman said.

The bodies thought to be those of four dead journalists are to be flown out of Afghanistan by the Red Cross, according to reports.