Forty-one people were killed today when a suicide car bomb exploded outside the Indian Embassy in Afghanistan’s capital.

Twenty-eight people were killed when a suicide car bomb exploded outside the Indian embassy in Afghanistan’s capital today in the deadliest attack of the year.

Afghan and Nato troops killed 15 suspected militants during clashes in southern Afghanistan, where authorities also arrested a senior Taliban commander, officials said today.

A series of clashes in southern Afghanistan left 43 suspected Taliban militants dead, while a roadside bomb killed two Nato soldiers and wounded three others, officials said today.

A roadside bomb tore through a Nato vehicle in Afghanistan, killing six Canadian soldiers and their Afghan interpreter, officials said.

Afghan and Nato forces clashed with Taliban militants in a dangerous southern region overnight, leaving 33 Afghanis dead, the provincial governor said today.

A roadside bomb destroyed a police vehicle patrolling in southern Afghanistan today, killing all seven policemen inside.

A roadside bomb killed three Canadian Nato soldiers in southern Afghanistan today.

A roadside bomb explosion killed a Canadian soldier today, a Canadian military spokesman said.

More than 60 suspected insurgents, including three regional commanders, were killed by airstrikes on two Taliban compounds in Afghanistan today.

Airstrikes by Nato helicopters hunting Taliban fighters ripped through three dried mud homes in southern Afghanistan as villagers slept, killing at least nine civilians, including women and children, said residents and the provincial governor.

A string of suicide bombings across Afghanistan killed 18 people, including four Canadian soldiers, today and wounded scores of others a day after Nato announced a victory over insurgents in a southern Taliban stronghold.

US artillery and airstrikes killed between 50 and 60 suspected Taliban militants today, the fourth day of a Nato-led offensive in southern Afghanistan, a Nato spokesman said.

A Nato airstrike killed 11 suspected Taliban militants hiding in a southern Afghan compound, an alliance spokesman said today.