The commander of a provincial Afghan police rapid reaction force was killed on Saturday in a suicide attack that also claimed another officer's life and wounded 23 people, police said.

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At least 14 civilians were killed and six wounded in a NATO air strike in southern Afghanistan, the local authorities said on Sunday.

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A suicide bomber struck a crowded Afghan bazaar on Monday , killing four civilians and wounding another 14 in a remote town in the East of the country.

Hundreds of British troops took time off from war on Friday to celebrate the royal wedding with patriotic bunting and flags in one of Afghanistan's most hostile provinces.

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A Taliban suicide bomber wearing an Army uniform killed five foreign troops and four Afghan soldiers on Saturday in a brazen attack at the Afghan Army's Eastern headquarters.

Villagers in a tiny mountain hamlet in Afghanistan’s Bamiyan Valley saw a remarkable thing recently — a group of women putting on skis. The men and children of Khoshak, tucked at the snow-covered foot of the Koh-e-Baba peaks, could hardly tear their eyes off the 10 women in headscarves and long coats laughing as they wrestled with their poles and bindings.

Three suicide bombers rammed an explosives-laden truck into a construction depot in Eastern Afghanistan, killing 24 workers and wounding 59 others, officials said on Monday.

Emotional Afghan President Hamid Karzai on Saturday urged international troops to "stop their operations in our land", his strongest salvo yet in a row over mistaken civilian killings.

Eight people including a policeman were killed and 30 others were wounded on Friday in a Taliban suicide car bomb attack on police headquarters in a city in eastern Afghanistan, police said.

A loud explosion followed by light weapons fire was heard Monday in the southern Afghan city of Kandahar, the spiritual home of the Taliban, an AFP reporter said.

The incident happened outside a branch of the Kabul bank, where some Afghan Army and the police go to receive their pay, and shattered windows nearby, the reporter said, adding the area has now been sealed off.