Suicide bombers targeted the Indian consulate in the eastern Afghan city of Jalalabad on Saturday, detonating an explosives-packed car outside the building and killing nine civilians, including a child.

A suicide bomber targeted an Afghan government official at a village funeral near the Pakistan border on Tuesday, killing at least 20 people and wounding dozens more in one of the deadliest attacks of

At least eight Afghans were shot dead and dozens wounded on Wednesday in clashes between police and demonstrators protesting over the burning of the Quran at a US-run military base, officials said.

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Taliban militants attacked Jalalabad airport and a military base for foreign forces in eastern Afghanistan on Saturday but the strike was thwarted, officials said.

A Taliban-style bomb attack killed a district governor in eastern Afghanistan on Friday, police officials said.