US suspects that Pakistan's powerful spy agency ISI could be behind the attack on its embassy in Kabul this week and is looking for direct evidence in this regard.

A senior US defence official said

Nato and Afghan forces have captured at least two suspects linked to a dramatic Taliban assault on the US embassy and Nato headquarters in Kabul, the transatlantic alliance said on Thursday.

The death toll from a suicide bombing that targeted members of an anti-Taliban militia attending funeral prayers in Pakistan's northwestern region has risen to 40, police said Friday.

The bomber blew

As the guns fell silent in Afghan capital Kabul after a 20-hour stand-off between NATO forces and Taliban, the two sides began another battle: on Twitter.

NATO and Taliban may be shying away from

A bomb targeting members of an anti-Taliban militia exploded during funeral prayers in northwestern Pakistan on Thursday, killing at least ten people and wounding 25 others, police said.

The incident

Officials raised the death toll in a 19-hour siege in Kabul to 14 on Wednesday as the Afghan government announced the violence had come to an end with the killing of two insurgents.

The attacks start

Taliban gunmen with suicide bombs and heavy weaponry on Tuesday launched coordinated attacks in Kabul targeting NATO's headquarters and the US embassy, killing at least six people.

Around five hours

A Taliban suicide bomber driving a truck attacked an advance NATO combat post in central Afghanistan, wounding 89 people including 50 American soldiers, the US Army said Sunday.

News of Saturday's at

The post-9/11 invasion of Afghanistan by the United States and its allies "will remain a permanent stigma on the face of western democracy", the Taliban said on Saturday.

Pakistan would have faced the combined military might of the US and India if it had not allowed American troops on its territory to fight Taliban in Afghanistan after 9/11 terror attacks, former milit