Kabul - A suicide car bomber targeted a military convoy of foreign forces in the eastern province of Nangarhar early Thursday morning, with multiple casualties feared among the foreign troops and civilians, officials said.

Police officials in this province, however, did not provide details about casualties of foreign forces. They said the attack took place Bati Kot district on the main road of Jalalabad Torkham.

Ahmad Zia Abdulzai, the Nangarhar province governor's spokesman, said the attack was carried out by a suicide bomber.

Berlin - German peacekeeping troops in remote parts of Afghanistan were supplied with 1 million litres of home-brand beer and wine last year, Berlin confirmed Wednesday.

An opposition politician, Elke Hoff, told the newspaper Bild: "It seems alcohol plays a worryingly big role in camp life."

But officials insisted the troops were not drunk. Each man was allowed under regulations to drink up to 1 litre of beer daily. The camps are largely supplied by air via camps in Tajikistan.

Kabul - Six civilians were killed when a bomb-filled fuel tanker exploded close to the building where the brother of President Hamid Karzai was attending a meeting in the southern province of Kandahar on Wednesday, according to government sources.

The bomb injured 43 people, however, Ahmed Wali Karzai escaped uninjured when the tanker exploded near where he was attending a meeting at the office of the provincial council, the BBC reported.

United Nations, Nov 12 : Pakistan has reportedly told the United Nations that it had suffered “the most” from the direct consequences of decades of conflict and instability in Afghanistan.

He said a large number of Afghan refugees, including Al Qaeda and the Taliban, were staying in Pakistan after illegally crossing from across the Afghan border.

Washington, Nov. 11 : A more regional strategy is likely to be implemented by the incoming Obama administration vis-à-vis the war in Afghanistan, including possible talks with Iran.

According to the Washington Post, Obama will, in all probability, renew Washington’s commitment to the hunt for Osama bin Laden and move ahead with a planned deployment of thousands of additional U. S. troops there.