A roadside bomb hit a minibus in southern Afghanistan on Sunday, killing six passengers and wounding another nine, an official said.

The US military’s top officer flies to Iraq on Tuesday to review plans for a troop withdrawal and efforts to form a new governing coalition, amid fresh violence targeting civilians.

Even as Republican Senator John McCain feels that securing Kandahar is the key to the success or failure of the Nato offensive in Afghanistan, Afghan citizens are turning voluntarily to the Taliban’s

Afghan President Hamid Karzai on Sunday appealed to hundreds of tribal and religious leaders to support a major operation in their southern province, the heartland of a Taliban insurgency.

In the heart of the violent birthplace of the Taliban movement, defying Afghan convention and family advice, mothers Magola and Faranaze decided to take up arms.

A suicide bomb ripped through a wedding party for a family with several members in the police force in the Taliban’s heartland in southern Afghanistan, killing at least 40 people and wounding dozens more, officials said on Thursday.

A car bomb exploded on Wednesday outside a small Nato military base in southern Afghanistan’s largest city, wounding two Afghans and destroying several cars, the police said.