Suicide attacks involving as many as 14 bombers struck an Afghan city today, and a motorcycle bomb exploded in a busy market in blasts that killed at least 46 people altogether- the year’s deadliest day for civilians in Afghanistan.

A suicide bomb attack by a fake beggar inside a regional prosecutor’s office and a shoot-out between police and Taliban militants killed 15 people in Afghanistan on today, officials said.

Al-Qaida has sent several fighters from Iraq to join insurgents in Afghanistan, a provincial governor said after interrogating an Iraqi suspect who was caught sneaking across the country’s western border.