Eight NATO troops and a contractor were killed when an Afghan pilot opened fire on Wednesday after a row at a Kabul training centre in one of the deadliest such attacks since the US-led invasion in 20

Nearly 500 Taliban prisoners have escaped from Kandahar prison in southern Afghanistan through a tunnel hundreds of metres long, officials said today.

The Taliban said it was behind the huge jail

Around 500 Taliban prisoners escaped overnight from southern Afghanistan's Kandahar jail in a daring breakout the second from the prison in the past three years.

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A roadside bomb killed two Nato service members and a gunman shot dead a local peace council official in Southern Afghanistan where thousands of Afghan and international troops are bracing for an expected spring resurgence of Taliban attacks, officials said on Sunday.

Sixty-five militants were killed in fighting with the security forces in Eastern Afghanistan, Xinhua reported on Thursday. The fighting took place in the Baraki Barak district of the Logar province, 60 km south of Kabul.

A Taliban suicide bomber who killed five foreign and four Afghan soldiers in a weekend attack in the East of the country was a member of the Afghan Army, Nato's coalition force said on Monday.

Five foreign troops died in an attack claimed by the Taliban on an Afghan Army base in the country’s East, the joint international force said on Saturday, while four Afghan troops were also killed.

A Pakistani man has been arrested on suspicion of leading a botched assault on a Nato base last week that left seven insurgents dead, the Afghan Intelligence Agency said.

Nato troops hunted down an Afghan policeman who shot dead two American soldiers this week, killing him with the help of intelligence tip-offs, the military said on Thursday.

Over 100 people have died in violence in Afghanistan's southern city of Kandahar, sparked by protests against a US pastor's burning of the holy Quran, officials said on Sunday.

Fighting was going on