Kabul, Jan.

Kabul - Two policemen were killed in a roadside bomb in the southern city of Kandahar, while three other police officers were killed and seven others were presumably abducted by Taliban militants in western Afghanistan, officials said Tuesday.

In the latest attack, a bomb loaded on a parked bicycle was remotely detonated in Kandahar city, the capital for the province of the same name, when a police vehicle was passing by on Tuesday, said Zelmai Ayoubi, spokesman for the provincial governor.

"The enemy attack killed two policemen and wounded one policeman and one civilian," he said, adding that the bomb was detonated by a remote control device and police forces were deployed to the area to track down the culprits.

Kabul - One Afghan civilian was killed and nine others including police officers were wounded in two suicide attacks and a roadside bomb blast in a town in south-eastern Afghanistan, officials said Monday.

A suicide bomber driving a explosive-filled vehicle attacked a NATO-led US military base in Khost city, the capital of the province of the same name on Monday, but caused no casualties among the troops, a NATO spokesman in Kabul said.

The Afghan interior ministry said that the blast killed one Afghan civilian and wounded six others.

Kabul - One Afghan civilian was killed and nine others, including police officers, were wounded in two suicide attacks and a roadside bomb blast in a town in south-eastern Afghanistan, officials said Monday.

A suicide bomber driving a explosive-filled vehicle attacked a NATO-led US military base in Khost city, the capital for the province of the same name, on Sunday, but caused no casualties among the troops, a NATO spokesman in Kabul said.

The Afghan interior ministry said that the blast killed one Afghan civilian and wounded six others.

Kabul - An Afghan army corps commander and 12 other military personnel were killed when their helicopter crashed into a mountain due to bad weather in western Afghanistan on Thursday, an army spokesman said.

The M-17 helicopter was on its way from the western province of Herat to the neighboring province of Farah when it went down due to "bad weather," General Zahir Azimi, a defence ministry spokesman, said.

Kabul - Three soldiers with NATO-led international military forces were killed in southern Afghanistan on Friday, the alliance said in a statement.

The soldiers were part of the more than 50,000-strong NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) that has been deployed to Afghanistan from 41 nations following the ouster of the Taliban regime in late 2001.

The statement did not disclose the nationalities of the dead soldiers, nor did it say how and exactly where in southern region they were killed. Most of the troops deployed to southern provinces are soldiers from the US, Canada, Britain, and the Netherlands.