US-led coalition forces captured a militant fighter with only one leg in a battle this week in southern Afghanistan, and it was possible the militant could be top Taliban leader Mullah Dadullah, an Afghan general said today.

US forces killed more than 12 insurgents in a clash in south-eastern Afghanistan, the military said today.

A suspected bomb blast killed an election worker and four other civilians in south-eastern Afghanistan today.

An Afghan vice president escaped unhurt today when an assassin’s bomb exploded as his convoy drove by.

At least 16 people, many of them children, were killed in explosions at the office of a US security contractor in Afghanistan’s capital and a school in the south east as the country moves towards its first post-Taliban election.

A powerful explosion wrecked an office of an American security house in Kabul today, killing up to six people, officials said.

An explosion ripped through a school in south-eastern Afghanistan, killing nine children and one adult, the United States military said today.

Foreign aid workers - including those from Irish aid group Concern - have taken shelter in a hotel in the Pakistani city of Quetta after warnings Taliban rebels were planning suicide attacks against their offices.

US forces detained 35 Taliban suspects today, including a rebel commander, as they swept through a province in south-eastern Afghanistan.

OSAMA bin Laden has evaded capture in Afghanistan several times and may be linked in some way to the Madrid train attacks that killed 200 people, France's chief of defence staff said yesterday.

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.

US-led forces killed as many as 24 people who attacked a coalition convoy in south-western Afghanistan overnight, the US military said yesterday.

A coalition convoy was ambushed in south-eastern Afghanistan, injuring two coalition troops and an Afghan soldier, the US military said today.

A coalition convoy was ambushed in south-eastern Afghanistan, injuring two coalition troops and an Afghan soldier, the US military said today.

Former Iraqi spymaster Farouk Hijazi, captured by US forces, could be the man to link Saddam Hussein’s regime to Osama bin Laden and his al-Qaida terror network.

In Washington, US counter-terrorism officials have strongly disputed the report by a Pakistani provincial minister that sons of Osama bin Laden have been arrested in south-eastern Afghanistan.

Two of Osama bin Laden’s son were arrested in south-eastern Afghanistan in a joint operation involving US forces, Pakistan’s provincial home minister said today.

It has been reported by a Pakistani provincial minister that sons of Osama bin Laden have been arrested in south-eastern Afghanistan.

Gunmen opened fire on a two-vehicle United Nations convoy travelling in volatile south-eastern Afghanistan, but no injuries were reported, a UN spokesman said today.

Hundreds of American troops have pressed towards a group of rebel fighters in a cave network in the mountains of south-eastern Afghanistan.

Coalition forces are fighting a pitched battle against a group of 80 rebel forces aligned to renegade leader Gulbuddin Hekmatyar in the largest-scale fighting in nine months, the US military said today.

Four US soldiers were wounded today and two Afghan militia members were killed when they came under small arms fire during a reconnaissance mission in south-eastern Afghanistan, an army spokesman said.

Eight Afghans were today being questioned by international troops after British Royal Marines raided a compound in south-eastern Afghanistan and seized a huge stash of weapons which may have been left by al Qaida and Taliban fighters.

US soldiers have taken three men into custody in south-eastern Afghanistan after they were found to be carrying weapons, a large sum of money and illegal documents.

British soldiers have apparently killed two gunmen during a gunfight in south-eastern Afghanistan.

A US official has claimed a senior member of Saudi dissident Osama bin Laden’s al-Qaida network may have been killed in a missile attack in south-eastern Afghanistan.