Two suicide bombers attacked a British compound in the Afghan capital Kabul today, killing at least three people and leaving two others injured.

Foreign experts worked through a final handful of complaints from candidates in Afghanistan’s first-ever-presidential ballot, while an election official said counting of the historic vote was finally set to begin today – five days after the election.

Afghan forces arrested three Americans on a freelance counter-terrorism mission after bursting into a private jail that the trio were allegedly running and finding prisoners hanging from their feet, officials said.

An explosion injured six people in the Afghan capital of Kabul at what international peacekeepers described as a clandestine bomb factory.

A group calling itself the Secret Army of Mujahedeen is claiming responsibility for attacks on US troops in Arabic-language leaflets found in eastern Afghanistan.