Kabul  - Eleven insurgents were killed in a fight with US-led troops near Kabul city, while six other militants were killed in NATO-led airstrike in eastern region, the military said Wednesday.

The militants loyal to Hezbi Islami, an associate group of Taliban militants, were killed in Sarobi district of Kabul province on Tuesday, US military said in a statement.

Kabul - A suicide bomber detonated his vehicle filled with explosives near a US military convoy in a northern province close to Kabul city, killing two Afghan civilians and wounding 20 others, including two US soldiers, officials said Monday.

The attacker targeted a parked US military vehicle in Char-e-Kar city near the residence of Parwan provincial governor on Monday morning, Interior Ministry spokesman Zemarai Bashary said.

"Two civilians were killed and 17 others were wounded with two of them in critical condition," Health Ministry spokesman Abdullah Fahim said. Three bodyguards for the governor were among the wounded people.

Kabul  - Five school children were killed in a suicide attack in eastern Afghanistan, while three more children were killed in a rocket attack in capital Kabul, officials said Sunday.

A suicide bomber targeted a government building in Mandozai district of south-eastern province of Khost on Sunday morning, killing eight people and wounding 50 others, Mohammad Yaqoub Khan, security chief of Khost police forces said.

He said that the bomber detonated his explosive-packed vehicle after he was stopped by Afghan security forces from entering the district chief's office, where dozens of local tribal elders had gathered for a meeting on security situation.

Kabul - A NATO soldier was killed by insurgent fire in eastern Afghanistan while four militants were killed in an operation by US-led coalition forces a southern region, officials said Wednesday.

The soldier of the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) was killed on Wednesday by "enemy fire," ISAF said in a statement.

The statement did not disclose the nationality of the soldier, nor the precise location of the incident, but most of the international forces stationed in the eastern provinces are US troops.

Kabul - Afghan President Hamid Karzai said on Thursday that unnecessary detentions and house-searches of Afghan people would damage the legitimacy of his government and asked NATO-led international forces to respect the laws and culture of Afghanistan.

"Entering by force to our people's houses is against the government of Afghanistan," Karzai told a gathering of Afghan government officials and foreign diplomats in Kabul.

The president said his repeated demands to the nearly 70,000 NATO and US-led troops stationed in the country to put an end to house searches and detentions did not yield any result.

Kabul - An official in eastern Afghanistan said Wednesday three civilians were killed and two others were wounded when their house was attacked by US soldiers.

A man, his wife and 15-year-old son were killed in a coalition force raid in Khost, the capital of the province of the same name, a senior provincial official, who declined to be named, said.

He said two other civilians, a woman and a child, were wounded by "US soldiers firing." The official said the coalition forces did not inform the Afghan security forces of their operation in advance.