A suicide bomber in a vehicle attacked a convoy carrying Afghan doctors working for the United Nations in southern Afghanistan today, killing two doctors and their driver and wounding 15 other people, officials said.

A suicide bomber in a vehicle attacked a convoy carrying Afghan doctors working for the United Nations in southern Afghanistan today, killing two doctors and wounding 15 other people, a police chief said.

A suicide car bomber targeting a Canadian military convoy killed 35 civilians at a busy market in southern Afghanistan today.

A suicide bomber detonated explosives next to Afghan soldiers in an eastern market today, killing one soldier and wounding three, an official said.

A suicide bomber ploughed his explosives-laden car into a Nato-led force’s convoy in southern Afghanistan, killing one soldier, the force said. A purported Taliban spokesman claimed responsibility for the attack.

A suicide bomber ploughed his explosive-laden vehicle into a Nato-led force’s convoy in southern Afghanistan, killing himself and damaging an alliance vehicle, a spokesman for the force said.

Afghan security forces attacked a group of suspected Taliban rebels after they crossed the border from neighbouring Pakistan and killed at least 15 of them, an army commander said today.

A US-led Chinook helicopter was destroyed by a fire that broke out as it made a “hard landing” with six crew and 25 Afghan troops on board, the US military said today. No one was hurt.

Ten Afghan civilians were killed when a bus collided with a US military vehicle today.

Afghanistan’s government claimed that al-Qaida and Taliban rebels launched a violent campaign last week to subvert landmark legislative elections with a deadly suicide bombing and a failed attempt to down a US military aircraft with a shoulder-launched missile.

Suspected Taliban gunmen ambushed a convoy of civilian trucks carrying vehicles to the US military in southern Afghanistan, killing three of the drivers, an Afghan official said today.

Pakistani security forces have arrested the head of a militant Islamic group suspected in the kidnapping of three UN workers - including Irishwoman Annetta Flanigan - in Afghanistan in October.

Taliban-linked kidnappers of three UN election workers, including an Irish woman, claimed today that a deal could be close for their release.

A senior Afghan militia commander alleged today that troops from Afghanistan’s US-trained national army beheaded four Taliban fighters to avenge the similar slaying of an Afghan soldier and a military interpreter.

US-BACKED Afghan troops killed eight suspected Taliban and captured 15 others in fighting against extremists holed up in the Torghar mountains of southern Afghanistan, the US military said yesterday.

The UN is to start using helicopters to deliver aid to remote mountain regions in northern Afghanistan.

A group of bandits in Afghanistan has reportedly demanded a £23,000 ransom for a Canadian journalist who was abducted in the south of the country.

The Taliban today claimed to have had positive talks with Northern Alliance leaders in negotiating the surrender of their troops in the besieged city of Kunduz.