An investigation is under way to determine why a Lynx helicopter crashed in southern Afghanistan, killing five British service personnel.

Five Nato troops who died in a helicopter crash in southern Afghanistan today are thought to be British.

Six US service members were killed in southern Afghanistan when a helicopter crashed after developing engine trouble, officials said.

Two children were killed when their family’s vehicle hit a roadside bomb in southern Afghanistan today, officials said.

A suicide bomber tore through the Afghan capital, killing at least six people near the site where thousands of elders are to gather next week to discuss a controversial security agreement with the United States, officials said.

A suicide bomber detonated his explosives near a police checkpoint and a bank in southern Afghanistan, one of two attacks in the heartland of the insurgency that killed 18 people over 24 hours.

The Taliban’s reclusive leader has said his group is willing to start peace negotiations – even as he urged more attacks on foreign troops.

Four civilians have been killed by a bomb hidden inside a cart at a livestock market in southern Afghanistan, a provincial official said.

Eleven members of one family were killed when a minibus hit a bomb buried in the road in southern Afghanistan, officials said today.

The American soldier charged with killing 16 Afghan civilians during night raids on two villages last year has pleaded guilty to avoid the death penalty.

A plane crash in southern Afghanistan has killed four international service members, says Nato.

Thirty people on board a bus were killed when their vehicle crashed into the wreckage of a truck that had been attacked by Taliban insurgents in southern Afghanistan, officials said.

A suicide bomber has targeted a provincial governor’s convoy near a hospital in southern Afghanistan.

Five American service members have been killed in a helicopter crash in southern Afghanistan.

A roadside bomb has struck a car in southern Afghanistan, killing six civilians.

A suicide car bomber has killed two Afghan civilians and wounded 14 others near the main US military base in southern Afghanistan.

A roadside bombing in southern Afghanistan has killed a district police chief, officials said.

Two Nato troops have been killed in an apparent insider attack in southern Afghanistan.

At least eight people were killed today in attacks in southern Afghanistan, including one incident where a suicide bomber on a motorbike blew himself up at a local intelligence office, officials said.

Polish troops on patrol in southern Afghanistan have found a newborn baby abandoned at the side of a road.

A suicide bomber rammed a car packed with explosives into a mini-bus carrying foreign aviation workers to the airport in the Afghan capital early today, killing at least nine people in an attack a militant group said was revenge for an anti-Islam film that ridicules the Prophet Mohammed.

At least one Afghan police officer turned his gun on Nato troops at a remote checkpoint in southern Afghanistan before dawn today, killing four American service members before escaping, according to Afghan and international officials.

Nato says that a man believed to be a member of the Afghan Local Police has turned his weapon on US-led coalition forces, killing two international service members.

Authorities in Afghanistan say two bomb blasts near the governor’s compound in a western province have killed a 12-year-old boy and wounded 16 other civilians.

The international military coalition in Afghanistan says one of its service members has died in a bomb attack in southern Afghanistan.

Afghan president Hamid Karzai is moving to replace the country's intelligence chief and the ministers of defence and interior.

Two Nato service members have been killed in a helicopter crash in southern Afghanistan, the international military coalition said today.

Three Nato troops have been killed in Afghanistan by a man in Afghan army uniform, a spokesman for the US-led military coalition said.

Taliban insurgents beheaded 17 Afghan civilians for taking part in a music event in a Taliban-controlled area of southern Afghanistan, officials said.

The Taliban’s reclusive leader says his fighters have infiltrated the Afghan police and army and are successfully killing a rising number of US-led coalition forces.

Seven American troops are among 11 people who died in a Blackhawk helicopter crash in southern Afghanistan, Nato-led forces said today.

Two soldiers with the US-led international military coalition and three Afghan men have been killed during attacks in southern Afghanistan, local and Nato officials have said.

Roadside bombs have killed 14 Afghan civilians, five policemen and one member of the US-led international military coalition in southern Afghanistan, Afghan and Nato authorities said today.

A man in an Afghan army uniform has shot and wounded coalition troops in eastern Afghanistan, in the latest incident of an insider attack.

Three British soldiers have been killed by a man wearing an Afghan police uniform who shot them at a checkpoint.

Four service members have died in southern Afghanistan in the past two days, Nato said today.

Seven attackers were killed today after storming a base of the Nato coalition in Kandahar province of southern Afghanistan.

At least 22 people were killed when three suicide bombers blew themselves up in a marketplace in the largest city in southern Afghanistan, authorities have said.

Twenty civilians have been killed in an explosion in Kandahar, the largest city in southern Afghanistan, an official said today.

An airstrike by the US-led Nato coalition has killed eight members of a family in eastern Afghanistan, local authorities have said.

Two Nato service members have been killed in an insurgent attack in southern Afghanistan.

Insurgent attacks killed three Nato troops in Afghanistan today while a fourth died of non-battle related injuries, the international coalition said.

A man wearing an Afghan army uniform has shot dead a US soldier, one of two Nato service members killed today.

An attacker wearing an Afghan army uniform opened fire on international troops today in southern Afghanistan, killing one, Nato said. Coalition forces returned fire and killed the attacker.