Two contractors working for the CIA were killed in an ambush in Afghanistan, the agency said in Washington tonight.

AMERICAN troops clashed with suspected Taliban near a remote outpost in fighting that killed one American and wounded two others, the latest violence in Afghanistan's increasingly virulent insurgency, officials said yesterday.

A US soldier has been killed and two others wounded in a clash with suspected Taliban rebels in southeastern Afghanistan, the US military said.

Two American soldiers died today after a battle with suspected Taliban fighters.

A US soldier died from wounds and another was slightly injured by a bomb in separate incidents in the same Afghanistan province, the US military said yesterday.

Eleven civilians have been killed in eastern Afghanistan after a bomb dropped by an American warplane landed on a home near the Pakistani border, the US military said today.

US forces have launched a large-scale operation in southeastern Afghanistan aimed at Osama bin Laden’s al-Qaida network.

A US special forces solider was killed in the mountains of eastern Afghanistan yesterday during a battle with fighters believed to be linked to al-Qaida and the deposed Taliban regime.